Chernobyl Pripyat

Chernobyl nuclear power plant - a unique tourist facility in Ukraine, which is difficult to find a similar worldwide. In April 1986, in the town of Chernobyl there was a large-scale catastrophe: on the fourth power unit power powerful explosion, which resulted in the atmosphere has been made radioactive release.

After the radiation level in the area declined slightly, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the object of visiting tourists.

Excursions to Chernobyl

Officially, the exclusion zone is now available to the public only in 2010, however, the first tourists came here in 1995. Travel companies, together with the leadership of the state has developed a number of hiking trails that run through the safest areas of the exclusion zone.

Tourists are invited to several programs of excursions:

• day trip;
• duration of 2 days;

Standard one-day excursion in the program captures the most popular objects of the Exclusion Zone:

• Chernobol NPP observation deck with views of the sarcophagus of the fourth power unit;
• pond - he played a cooler when the station worked, and now live here unique catfish feeding which is also included in the tour program;
• Zalase Kopachi and villages - villages that are included in the exclusion zone;
• Walking through the streets of the famous ghost town of Ukraine - Pripyat. The walking route includes the most popular buildings in the city: a recreation center "Energetik" and a children`s park;
• Visit the monument to Prometheus and plaques set in the memory of all those who died in the accident and the liquidators;
• at the request of the tourists have their meals at the bar "Ten" was located here before the agency "Chernobylinterinform."

In the longer version of the tour provides a visit:

• viewing pavilion nuclear power plant;
• visiting the cemetery equipment, where all the cars that were involved in the accident;
• overnight at the hotel "Pripyat";
• Ginger tour the forest and "bridge of death" during the journey from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to Pripyat;
• Seen squatters - the only residents of the 30-km exclusion zone;

Excursions are organized both individual and group. When you visit the Chernobyl exclusion zone should remember some rules.

FYI Chernobyl nuclear power plant

In order to get to the tourist area of ​​the Chernobyl exclusion zone before the trip should make a request in the prescribed form.

• On the territory of the Chernobyl zone valid access mode, so every traveler must have a passport.
• Before the trip to the plan approved by the group tours, which deviate from strictly prohibited.
• It is also forbidden to move around the area alone, each group must be accompanied by a qualified guide.
• Taking pictures is allowed, but with little restriction.
• All passengers must wear tight-fitting clothes that cover the whole body.
• At the entrance and exit from the territory of the Chernobyl Zone of visitors are monitored.
• Things, clothing and footwear, radiation levels which exceed the permissible limits, shall be destroyed.

Visiting the area it is still associated with a certain risk to life, so to preserve the life and health of the traveler a number of recommendations. Travelers are not recommended:

• smoking and eating outdoors;
• touch the plants, as well as buildings, facilities;
• to put items on the ground and sit on it;
• drink water from the wells;
• strictly forbidden to make or take out of the zone of any object.

Interesting Facts

• In 2009, the magazine «Forbes» admitted the Chernobyl exclusion zone the most unusual and exotic tourist destination on earth.
• In Chernobyl, it plans to open a huge park, a museum, an analogue of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Pirogovo . It will be a kind of exclusion zone created in miniature. Also in the area of ​​the Chernobyl disaster is scheduled to open the reserve.

How to get to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone situated in northern Kiev region, near the town of Pripyat. Each regional center of the country to the city organized tours, the largest number of tourist operators working in the Chernobyl zone, concentrated in Kiev. Separate site visits by tourists is prohibited.