Experience this unique two-day tour of Chernobyl and Pripyat. You'll explore the places destroyed by the most important environmental disaster of the 20th Century.
2 Day Trip to Chernobyl and Pripyat
Day 1: Kiev - Chernobyl - Pripyat
On the first day, the tour leaves Kiev at 8am and heads to Chernobyl. After a two-hour bus journey, you'll arrive in the city that has been burnt in everyone's memories since the 1986 nuclear disaster which ruined the lives of so many families.
On arrival, you'll stop for a light breakfast to build up energy for the visit. You'll arrive at the first checkpoint, where you'll pass into the 30km Exclusion Zone.
Wandering through the city streets of Chernobyl, you'll see the museum, Saint Elijah Church, the Monument to the Chernobyl Liquidators and the park dedicated to the settlements that disappeared after the nuclear disaster.
On the first day, you'll cross into the 10km Exclusion Zone, entering the town of Kopachi just 4km from the Chernobyl Power Plant. The town was completely contaminated and had to be evacuated. Since then, there have been no signs of life...
You'll visit the Nuclear Power Plant zone, where you'll see the shelter constructed to confine both the exterior and interior of reactor 4, the reactor which produced the nuclear explosion. The sight will chill you to your bones.
Before the end of the day, you'll visit Pripyat, a town left completely empty after the accident. Here is where you truly see the destruction caused. Houses, hotels, schools and even a theme park - all abandoned.
After visiting the ghost town, you'll return to Chernobyl where you'll spend the night, gathering energy for a new day of exploring.
Day 2: Chernobyl - Pripyat - Kiev
After enjoying a hearty breakfast, you'll head back to Pripyat. Here you'll see a different part of the Nuclear Power Plant: reactors 5 and 6. You'll also be able to get close to the plant's cooling towers, which remain unfinished, and you'll visit an abandoned Experimental Radiological Laboratory.
Today you'll have the opportunity to talk with people who stayed living in the area, as well as with members of the Institute of Nuclear Safety of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Chernobyl. You'll learn about the current state of the reactors, as well as the answers to all the questions you may have surrounding the 1986 disaster and its consequences.
You'll visit the Duga radar, the last anti-ballistic missile radar system the Soviets installed on Ukrainian territory.
Passing back through the radiation checkpoint will finish off the tour, and you'll head back on your way to Kiev.
Safety
The route is designed in accordance with the necessary security standards, reducing to a minimum the effects of radiation on the human body. The radiation received on the trip is equivalent to that of a two-hour plane journey.
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