I’ve been quite fascinated by the Chernobyl/Pripyat exclusion zone for a few years now and have been thinking for ages about going on one of the short tours that are run. Well, I’ve decided – if I’m going to go, now’s the time.

Has anyone on here done one of these tours?

If so, which tour agent did you use?

aren’t you scared that yer knob’ll fall out?

Watch this first;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1991245/

I went to Chernobyl and all i got was this lousy mutation.

This will inspire you to go: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

look up Dom jolly’s book (travelling to various mad places), he wrote about taking one of the tourist buses that go there…

they parked about a mile out and walked a bit further the guide got the Geiger counter out and it went mental…

**** that!

Wouldn’t taking a tour of Milton Keynes be cheaper?

This will inspire you to go: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

Love this, even though its been proven to be a fake..

She did do the tour, although not quite as she claims in that right up.

Really, really fancy going there tho.. not sure why tho.

Elena’s trip blog is brilliant. Made me want to go.

I am with you on this, would love to go, but her indoors won’t have it. may have to make a solo trip

Hmm, thinking of loading up my Vaya, and then riding around..

A mate went with work (he’s a geologist). The photos he uploaded makes it look like he went on holiday to COD 4, properly sobering too. Will try and upload a couple later.

A girl at work went, not really looking forward to it but she said it turned out to be really interesting and quite moving.

Hmm, thinking of loading up my Vaya, and then riding around..

When jnr is older and i don’t feel guilty about pissing off for a bit, this is what I plan on doing 😀

I would go, but not until Ive already got cancer.

No doubt Chernobyl has been to you.

Got fascinated when reading Martin Cruz Smith’s ‘Wolves eat Dogs’ – a detective type story set in the exclusion zone / Black villages.
( Just checked, there are some on ebay for reasonable prices)

Really enjoyed the book – may have to read it again.

Chris

Pripyat- come for the atmosphere, stay because snorks ate you.

I’d love to have a wander around Pripyat, remember reading a great National Geographic article on it once, just looks like a great snapshot in time of the USSR. Definitely on the bucket list (though perhaps when closer to the bucket).

Northwind – Stalker was actually the thing that sparked my fascination with the place 🙂

We could carve that on your tombstone, except you won’t have one because you got eaten.

Is it not a health hazzard still?

(though perhaps when closer to the bucket).

The longer you stay there, the closer the bucket is.

Yeah but you’re only going for a day, patriot.

Ah right. Oddly, I can see the attraction to going there.

It’ll make a great conversation point if nothing else.

And you’d never need a lantern again…

do you have to go on an organised tour, or could you just hop on your bike and ride through it?
what tyres for reactor core lava?

do you have to go on an organised tour, or could you just hop on your bike and ride through it?
what tyres for reactor core lava?

AFAIK there are orgainsed tours.. Thats how Elena’s trip blog was proved to be not all that she made it out to be..

As for rocking up and riding through it?

I’m gonna do some serious looking on the interwebz later, as I really have a hankering to do this.

…What Geiger Counter for …

Chris

There was a BBC documentary where a journalist went round the area, with an escort. The area was out of bounds, but some locals were nipping in to the forbidden zone to harvest vegetables and then cooking them – he was offered a very radioactive mushroom soup and declined….

That would be an ace location for a Danny Mackaskill video…….

Surely after a wander around the clothes would very contaminated and need to be destroyed !?!?!

If you rode a bike that would also need to be binned ?

I want to go here!

Used to be some good info on Pripyat on 28dl, there were a few folk from there had visited…

Start gradually with a trip to Scunthorpe

A fair number of people live in the exclusion zone for the free land and housing. A lot of them are pensioners on fixed incomes who are over the life expectancy anyway. An increased chance of cancer in x years is acceptable against living elsewhere with an increased chance of death from malnutrition and cold.

If you really wanted to hike in I’m sure you could avoid the cordon but I have no great desire to bicker with Ukrainian security agencies. Other abandoned Soviet industrial towns are available!

Not sure if this is public or not EDIT it wasn’t 🙁

I went a few years ago.
Pripyat is amazing. Standing right next to the old reactor is very freaky.
Defo go.

Hmmm, need to start working out the logistics of this..

Years ago I went to one of those “make yourself a better salesman” presentations. The speaker made a pretty convincing argument that if you have enough of something and you try hard enough you can sell it to someone, somewhere…..guess this proves him right.

http://tour2chernobyl.com/faq.html

http://tour2chernobyl.com/faq.html

Looks good,but everything points to the fact that these have closed down, and that you can’t get a guided tour anymore 😥