One-day trip to CHORNOBYL – visit the site of the worst environmental disaster in history
(Ecological / extreme tourism)

 9:00

Departure from Kyiv. Ride northwards to the border of the “exclusion zone”.                  The area is 440 km in perimeter.  

10:30

Passing of the checkpoint “Dytyatky” on the border of 30-km zone (estrangement zone and compulsory resettlement). Enter the “exclusion zone”.

11:00

Arrival in Chornobyl. A briefing with the leadership of the State Department – Administration of the estrangement zone. During a conversation you will get some idea about the estrangement zone and Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station, have acquaintance with the main types of the works and projects which are conducted in the estrangement zone by the scientists, specialists of Ukraine and foreign countries.

11:30

Trip to 10-km zone. Visit to the site of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station – an enterprise where more than 5000 staff was employed. External examination of the object “Sarcophagus”- concrete and steel shelter which covered radioactive masses and debris left after the explosion, visiting of the review pavilion, the possibility to see the natural growth survived after the accident – so-called “red forest”, and also the burial village. Acquaintance with the peace and quiet of the ghost town Prypyat’ all 47.500 inhabitants of which had to leave their homes the next day after the accident. Examination of the abandoned apartment blocks, schools, hotels, kinder gardens. 

14:00

Lunch (the quality of food is guaranteed).

15:00

Visit to the village Paryshiv. Meeting with the self-settlers, elderly people who didn’t want to leave their own places and refused to resettle. Acquaintance with the conditions of their way of life and problems.

16:00

Visit to the Saint-Illinskyj Temple, riverboat station, park of Slavy in Chornobyl. 

17:00

Departure from the “exclusion zone”.

19:00

Arrival in Kyiv.