Full-Day Tour of Chernobyl and Pripyat from Kiev - Small Group

Informazioni generali

Destinazione
Kiev, Ucraina

Il programma nel dettaglio

Chernobyl is the most famous Ukrainian phenomenon.

If you plan to visit Ukraine or are already in the country, don't miss the most important and unique experience and site.



Radiation makes the zone particularly interesting. Now at the ground there lays, in the thousand-times-decreased scale, a picture of contamination after a large radiation incident – the picture extremely intricate, interesting, representative also for chemical accidents and terrorist attacks, and fortunately already safe for the visitors.



Of course, the Zone in its central part still has places with elevated radiation, and we definitely would NOT recommend you staying at them for a long time.

However, if you follow the suggested route and the guides' directions, your visit to the Chornobyl zone will be absolutely radiation-safe.



During the tour you will see:

(There can be some changes due to weather conditions!)

- 7.30-7.50am registration. Departing from Kyiv at 8am;

- Dytyatky checkpoint, an official entrance to the Exclusion zone;

- the village of Zalissya with abandoned houses and barns;

- a bypass road to the NPP around the town of Chornobyl, built a month after the accident to facilitate the traffic of military vehicles;

- an almost fully buried village of Kopachi with a remaining kindergarten;

- a concrete-reloading unit, essential for the Sarcophagus erection in 1986;

- a decontaminated Red Forest at place of the first and worst radioactive fall-out;

- the town of Pripyat populated by 50 thousand people before the evacuation (without entering buildings inside);

- Energetic Palace of culture, the main recreational site for the Prypyat youth;

-Ferris wheel in the amusement park which was never open;

- Prypyat stadium;



Chornobyl NPP:

- the Sarcophagus and the New Safe Confinement ("Arch") – an observation point at a 300 m distance;

- memorial "Life for Life” in front of the administrative building, there used to be an enormous parking lot in 1986.;

- the secret soviet object Chornobyl-2 (radar "DUGA-1"). Giant radar antenna "DUGA-1".



The town of Chornobyl:

- the world’s best memorial "To Those who Saved the World’;

- an open-air exhibition of transport vehicles and robots used in 1986-clean up activities;

- ecologically-clean dinner (not included) in a Chornobyl state canteen for the Exclusion zone workers (vegetarian meal available upon request).



Languages

English



Importante information

In the Exclusion Zone, from May to October, there is an increased activity of mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects. Clothing should be as protective as possible, and open areas of the body must be treated with insecticides.