Packing list for Socotra & how to prepare yourself (mentally and physically!) for your Socotra tour.
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Packing list for Socotra & how to prepare yourself (mentally and physically!) for your Socotra tour.
Read full storyThinking about visiting Socotra? Start here to understand this beautiful, remote island off mainland Yemen.
Read full storySocotra is small enough to circle in a week and dense enough with wonders that every day looks completely different from the last. Dragon blood forests, a stalactite cave, pink dunes meeting turquoise sea, a lagoon you will dream about for years. Here is the full day-by-day blueprint.
Read full storySocotra sits in the Arabian Sea with one airport, no ferry and flight schedules that publish only a few months in advance,so getting there takes some planning. Here is exactly how it works, from booking your tour to landing in the car park where the adventure begins.
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Read full storyTell people you're going to Yemen and they ask the same question: what do you actually do there? A week in the southern Hadhramaut answers that comprehensively. Mud-brick skyscrapers, desert pilgrimage shrines, canyon villages, world-class honey and a fish market on the Arabian Sea. Here is the full day-by-day breakdown.
Read full storyThere is a moment on the road from Seiyun when Shibam appears out of the valley floor and everyone in the vehicle reaches for their camera. Five hundred mud-brick towers, up to ten storeys tall, still lived in, still maintained by the same families who built them five centuries ago. Here is what it is actually like to visit.
Read full storyWhere to see Socotra's famous Dragon Blood Trees
Read full storyThe Yemen you see on the news is not the Yemen you visit, and tours operate exclusively in the Hadhramaut, a vast valley region in the southeast that has remained largely stable for years. Here is an honest answer from someone who has been there and runs tours there regularly.
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Read full storyYemen is the birthplace of coffee culture, home to a honey that sells for more than perfume, and the keeper of a feast tradition that turns every lunch into an event. Here is what to expect.
Read full storyIt's the first question anyone asks about Libya, and it deserves a straight answer.
Read full storyIn 2025, Koryo Tours ran its first group tour to Bhutan. The itinerary was ready back in early 2020 before the pandemic closed borders worldwide and put everything on hold. Here is the story of how our Bhutan tours came together, what our first two groups experienced, and why this small Himalayan kingdom has already become one of our favourite destinations.
Read full storyWhat very few of them know is that Libya's Mediterranean coast contains Roman ruins that rival all of those, in scale, in preservation, and in atmosphere. The difference is that you'll have them almost entirely to yourself.
Read full storyIt has been reported that North Korea is barring US citizens holding a non-US passport from entry to North Korea, even if they are travelling on their non-US passport. What do we know so far?
Read full storyLibya is the fourth largest country in Africa, a crossroads of Greek, Roman, Arab and Berber civilisation, and one of the most historically rich destinations on earth. It also happens to have almost no tourists. Koryo Tours is changing that, and we'd like you to join us.
Read full storyLibya is one of our newest destinations at Koryo Tours, and one we're most excited about. From the Roman coast of the northwest to the newly opened Greek ruins of the east, a tour to Libya covers more ground, more history, and more genuine adventure than almost anywhere else we operate. Here's what to expect before you go.
Read full storyNorth Korea remains closed to almost all foreign tourists in 2026, and anyone claiming otherwise should be taken with a large pinch of salt. Here's an honest account of where things actually stand, what the recent signs do and don't mean, and what Koryo Tours knows after more than three decades in the DPRK tourism business.
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