| Duration: | 1 Day(s) - 0 Night(s) |
| Tour Category: | Full Day Tours |
This is one of the most popular and knowledgeable tours in Ukraine, where you will see the Chornobyl area including the town of Prypiat and Reactor #4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The zone is like a 30km wide monument to the power of nature and the folly of humanity, which you will never forget.
You will be impressed by the consequences of human activities and how nature takes over after such a huge ecological catastrophe, which happened there in 1986. It’s a great insight into Soviet Ukraine and a chance to see how cities and villages look after 28 years with no inhabitants.
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SoloEast's staff will meet you at the departure point, check passports, dress code, etc. If you need to be picked up at your location we can do that too - just let us know.
Drive to Chornobyl by passing Dytyatky checkpoint (on the border of the 30-km Exclusion Zone). We show you an informative and stunning documentary you'll like during a 2-hour ride.
Entry to the 30km Exclusion Zone. Meeting your guide (if a guide doesn't come with you from Kyiv).
On the way to the town of Chornobyl, we see a small abandoned village Cherevach, and the largest village in the Chornobyl area — Zalissya.
Arrival to Chernobyl. Introductory briefing on the Exclusion Zone administrative division and regulations, RAW disposal, etc.
Sightseeing Chornobyl town: Wormwood Star memorial, St. Ilya Church, Memorial "To Those who Saved the World", photo stop at the place with robots and vehicles used to clean the radioactive fallout.
Entry to the 10 km Zone by passing the Leliv checkpoint.
Military over the horizon radar, its base called "Chernobyl 2"
On the way to the Power Plant, we stop at the almost fully buried Kopachi village and check its kindergarten which we can enter.
The third stage of the ChNPP (uncompleted reactors # 5, # 6, and unfinished cooling towers).
Sightseeing Reactor #4 from a 270m distance and the construction site of a new sarcophagus.
Stop near the Red Forest and Pripyat road sign.
Sightseeing Pripyat town: Lenin Street, the main square, the Palace of Culture, Polissya Hotel, supermarket; Ferris wheel, the stadium, school, swimming pool, hospital, etc.
Drive through the tiny part of the western radioactive trace.
Passage through Leliv checkpoint. Radiation control before lunch.
Lunch at the Chornobyl canteen - all ingredients are brought from the outside and ecologically clean. A vegetarian meal is available upon request.
Visiting Paryshiv village, meeting the self-settlers (people who chose to come back to their homes after the evacuation (optional).
Important -Duga 3 (so-called "Russian Woodpecker", military over the horizon radar and its base called "Chernobyl 2") - IS OPEN FOR VISITS AGAIN
VISITING THE RADAR IS A PART OF OUR REGULAR TOUR
Final check out at Dytyatki checkpoint. Compulsory radiation control.
Return to Kyiv around 6 p.m.
Included: transportation, guide, permits, insurance, and lunch.
*** Note that for the Chornobyl trip, it is preferable to submit your personal info 11 business days in advance to the day of the tour itself. If you book later - the trip can be unavailable or the cost may involve extra costs.
