Full-Day Chernobyl and Pripyat Small Group Tour from Kiev
Kiev, Ukraine
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 1 day
Join an extremely exciting small-group Chernobyl Tour - an incredible adventure that you will never forget. Walk into undisclosed mystery of Pripyat town and uncover all its secrets. Take the journey to the famous ghost town, and dive into a surreal atmosphere of forgotten streets that once greeted hundreds of people, and now are forever empty. Moreover, learn about an impressive and unique Cold War radar system, known as the “Duga Radar” or the “Russian Woodpecker”.
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Join an extremely exciting small-group Chernobyl Tour - an incredible adventure that you will never forget. Walk into undisclosed mystery of Pripyat town and uncover all its secrets. Take the journey to the famous ghost town, and dive into a surreal atmosphere of forgotten streets that once greeted hundreds of people, and now are forever empty. Moreover, learn about an impressive and unique Cold War radar system, known as the “Duga Radar” or the “Russian Woodpecker”.A trip to the mysterious Chernobyl Exclusion Zone will start after picking you up from a meeting point. Interesting facts about Chernobyl and town of Pripyat will make the road to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone comprehensive and instructive.
After going through Deviatsky post and getting all the documents fixed, the Chernobyl tour will start. The first place for you to see inside the mysterious Chernobyl Exclusion Zone will be the long abandoned village Zalecie. Ruined buildings of the village, soviet house of culture with soviet mottoes on the walls and old mysterious memorials immersed in emptiness and full silence will be your first impressions of the Exclusion Zone.
Our trip will not leave you apart from a famous and impressive in Cold War period Radar System, known as the “Russian woodpecker”. This is a real masterpiece of soviet military engineering - 120 meters tall and over 300 meters wide antenna, designed to monitor NATO military activities.
You will discover the concrete sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Power plant’s fourth reactor, built right after the disaster and learn some striking facts about the feat of the accident liquidators.
A ghost town of Pripyat that was built specifically for people working at the station will show you how formerly noisy town can be changed hugely under the influence of a terrible disaster. Abandoned homes, football fields, sport complexes and one of the biggest hotels in the Soviet Union, all contain the secrets that will never be revealed. You will see how the nature turns back her possession after people left the city and how deserted streets became just small paths in the middle of the forest.
After the tour program you will have a lunch at a special local café.
The level of radiation on your clothes will be carefully checked after leaving the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and you will start your way back to Kiev, filled with unforgettable emotions.
After arrival to Kiev, the tour ends in the city center.
After going through Deviatsky post and getting all the documents fixed, the Chernobyl tour will start. The first place for you to see inside the mysterious Chernobyl Exclusion Zone will be the long abandoned village Zalecie. Ruined buildings of the village, soviet house of culture with soviet mottoes on the walls and old mysterious memorials immersed in emptiness and full silence will be your first impressions of the Exclusion Zone.
Our trip will not leave you apart from a famous and impressive in Cold War period Radar System, known as the “Russian woodpecker”. This is a real masterpiece of soviet military engineering - 120 meters tall and over 300 meters wide antenna, designed to monitor NATO military activities.
You will discover the concrete sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Power plant’s fourth reactor, built right after the disaster and learn some striking facts about the feat of the accident liquidators.
A ghost town of Pripyat that was built specifically for people working at the station will show you how formerly noisy town can be changed hugely under the influence of a terrible disaster. Abandoned homes, football fields, sport complexes and one of the biggest hotels in the Soviet Union, all contain the secrets that will never be revealed. You will see how the nature turns back her possession after people left the city and how deserted streets became just small paths in the middle of the forest.
After the tour program you will have a lunch at a special local café.
The level of radiation on your clothes will be carefully checked after leaving the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and you will start your way back to Kiev, filled with unforgettable emotions.
After arrival to Kiev, the tour ends in the city center.
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