Chernobyl and Pripyat excursion in a small group from Kiev
Visit Chernobyl and Pripyat on a full day small-group tour from Kiev and reveal the striking facts about the biggest nuclear disaster in the history. This is once-in-a-lifetime experience you can’t miss.
Meet your guide and the rest of the group in the city center and travel to Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, located in 1.5-hour drive from Kiev. After the tragic events of the 26 April, 1986, when the reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had exploded, all the population of the nearby territories was evacuated. Nowadays, abandoned cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat attract adventure travelers from all over the world with its surreal atmosphere.
During the tour, you will pass a deserted village Zalecie, see a monument to the first victims of the explosion, and abandoned buildings. Your guide will show you an impressive defense antenna Duga-1, also known as the “Russian Woodpecker”.
Moreover, you will walk through the street of the ghost town of Pripyat and see many sights with Soviet symbolic, including the House of Culture. Your guide will show your abandoned school and hotel, a swimming pool and playground with a Farris wheel.
Before leaving the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, you will pass a special control, when the level of the radiation will be checked. You will arrive in Kiev in the evening and the tour will end in the city center.
