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Full-Day Tour of Chernobyl and Prypiat from Kiev
1 day
Full Day
About this activity
You are welcome to join our scheduled 1-day trip, during which you will see:
(There can be some changes due to weather conditions!)
- Dytyatky checkpoint, an official entrance to the Exclusion zone;
- The village of Zalissya with abandoned houses and barns, a shop and the only self-settler Rozaliya Ivanivna;
- A bypass road to the NPP around the town of Chernobyl, built a month after the accident to facilitate the traffic of military vehicles;
- An almost fully buried village of Kopachi with a remaining kindergarten;
- A decontaminated Red Forest at place of the first and worst radioactive fall-out;
- The town of Pripyat populated by 50 thousand people before the evacuation;- The hospital receiving the fire fighters and NPP workers, badly affected by the accident; - A river port and the most prestigious Pripyat café at the embankment;
- A town hall – the first headquarters for mitigation of the accident consequences;
- Polissya hotel, a correction point for helicopters dropping lead bags over the 4th reactor ruins;
- Energetic Palace of culture, the main recreational site for the Prypyat youth;
- Ferris wheel in the amusement park which was never open;
- A fire station, the crew were the second to extinguish fire at the NPP at night of the disaster on April 26, 1986;
- Chernobyl NPP:
- The Sarcophagus and the New Safe Confinement ("Arch") – an observation point at a 300 m distance;
- A fire station at the NPP, the crew arrived the first to extinguish fire at the NPP after explosion,
- A NPP cooling pond (feeding giant catfish – depending on the season);
- Cooling towers of the Chernobyl NPP 3rd generation;
- The secret soviet object Chernobyl-2 (radar "DUGA-1"). Giant radar antenna "DUGA-1", secret town of Chernobyl-2 which provided the efficiency of antennas and horizon tracking of the launching of ballistic missiles.
- The town of Chernobyl.
- Ecologically-clean dinner in a Chernobyl state canteen for the Exclusion zone workers (vegetarian meal available upon request).
Tour includes: all formal permissions, comfortable auto transportation Kiev-Zone-Kiev (air conditioning, viewing a selection of documentary films on the route), professional English-speaking guide (or guide plus interpreter), maximally permitted time of stay in the Zone (leaving Kiev at 8.00 a.m., arriving back at 7.30 - 8.30 p.m.), extended program of the visit, teaching skills of radiation survival, compulsory insurance, route map and personal certificate about visit to the Chernobyl zone.
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(There can be some changes due to weather conditions!)
- Dytyatky checkpoint, an official entrance to the Exclusion zone;
- The village of Zalissya with abandoned houses and barns, a shop and the only self-settler Rozaliya Ivanivna;
- A bypass road to the NPP around the town of Chernobyl, built a month after the accident to facilitate the traffic of military vehicles;
- An almost fully buried village of Kopachi with a remaining kindergarten;
- A decontaminated Red Forest at place of the first and worst radioactive fall-out;
- The town of Pripyat populated by 50 thousand people before the evacuation;- The hospital receiving the fire fighters and NPP workers, badly affected by the accident; - A river port and the most prestigious Pripyat café at the embankment;
- A town hall – the first headquarters for mitigation of the accident consequences;
- Polissya hotel, a correction point for helicopters dropping lead bags over the 4th reactor ruins;
- Energetic Palace of culture, the main recreational site for the Prypyat youth;
- Ferris wheel in the amusement park which was never open;
- A fire station, the crew were the second to extinguish fire at the NPP at night of the disaster on April 26, 1986;
- Chernobyl NPP:
- The Sarcophagus and the New Safe Confinement ("Arch") – an observation point at a 300 m distance;
- A fire station at the NPP, the crew arrived the first to extinguish fire at the NPP after explosion,
- A NPP cooling pond (feeding giant catfish – depending on the season);
- Cooling towers of the Chernobyl NPP 3rd generation;
- The secret soviet object Chernobyl-2 (radar "DUGA-1"). Giant radar antenna "DUGA-1", secret town of Chernobyl-2 which provided the efficiency of antennas and horizon tracking of the launching of ballistic missiles.
- The town of Chernobyl.
- Ecologically-clean dinner in a Chernobyl state canteen for the Exclusion zone workers (vegetarian meal available upon request).
Tour includes: all formal permissions, comfortable auto transportation Kiev-Zone-Kiev (air conditioning, viewing a selection of documentary films on the route), professional English-speaking guide (or guide plus interpreter), maximally permitted time of stay in the Zone (leaving Kiev at 8.00 a.m., arriving back at 7.30 - 8.30 p.m.), extended program of the visit, teaching skills of radiation survival, compulsory insurance, route map and personal certificate about visit to the Chernobyl zone.
Included
- Dosimeter
- Dinner
- Professional guide
- Bus transportation
- Local taxes
- Compulsory insurance
Not included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- ATTENTION! To make your trip successful, please,while filling booking application, kindly write your email address and phone number into field "Special requirements", so our managers will be able to provide you with all necessary information and tour-details about the trip and to stay in touch on a day-trip in the case of any emergency.
- PLEASE NOTE: Tours booked within 5 days of departure are unlikely to be confirmed
- In case of no-show, the trip payment is not refunded
- Minimum age is 18 years
- It is obligatory to have your passport with you for each participant (and it should be the one that you specified in the application for the trip! Please check information you have sent to us thoroughly - it is required to send the full name, passport number, date of birth (dd\mm\yyyy) and citizenship per EACH PARTICIPANT. Any mistake in passport data may be a reason not to let you pass passport control at checkpoint successfully)
- Dress code is long sleeves (jacket, shirt), pants(no skirts!), closed comfortable shoes
- The Rules of stay in the Zone prohibit: - eating, drinking and smoking in open air; - touching buildings, trees, plants; - gathering and eating mushrooms, berries, fruit and nuts in forests and gardens of the abandoned settlements - sitting on the ground - putting photo and video cameras, bags, backpacks and other personal belongings on the ground.
- Persons under alcoholic/drug intoxication are not allowed to take a trip to the Zone
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Wonderful trip, highly recommended . Guides were Denis and vicky who were very knowledgeable and helpful, great people.
If I could give this more stars I would! The tour guides were very information and it was amazing to see something so unique. The day was long almost 12 hours but the time flew by because it was so interesting. The tour is very safe and you are always given instructions about where to go and what to touch. DO NOT HESITATE to take this tour - book it now!
Overall was a great experience! A must to experience Chernobyl with knowledgeable tour guide!
Very, very long day. Most of it was spent in Prypiat with just a brief glimpse of the containment arch at power plant. Lunch was huge cafeteria style. Because of season, the last two stops were in the dark. Wish they shortened Prypiat so we could see the drone and monument with daylight for pictures. Overall fun, with good guides and driver.
Great tour. Great guide. Highly recommended. Just try to book in warmer, drier seasons, because you will be outdoors all the time.
Best daily tour I ever did. Just amazing! You see abandoned villages, a huge radar system, the town Chernobyl with memorials of the liquidators which were called bio-robots what an expression, the Red Forest, the NPP, and the abandoned town of Prypiat. The guide tells everything you want to know. We were in a small group of about ten members in a minibus. On that day 300 tourists visited the exclusion zone, many of them with coaches, but in the zone itself you do not see many tourist groups. Our lunch in Chernobyl hotel-restaurant yes, there is a hotel was in the late afternoon with Ukrainian dishes. I enjoyed that day very much. You have to take your passport with you, which will be controlled at the zone entrance and also in the zone. Do not wear short-sleeved clothes, only eat and drink in the car, and do not put your belongings or even sit on the ground. Wear good and comfortable shoes, no sandals. You walk through nature, sometimes there is no path. In Prypiat there are many broken glasses on the way.