Itinerary

1. Chernobyl Excursion

   • Check-in at the office in Kyiv, Shuliavska Street, 5 (Metro Station Polytechnic Institute) by 8:00 am and depart towards Chernobyl.
   • En-route to Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
   • Pass through the Dytiatky police and dosimetry control checkpoint on the border of the 30-km Exclusion Zone by 10:30 am. Exclusion zone and the zone of absolute mandatory resettlement, passport check, instruction of radiation safety rules.
   • Pass by Cherevach village and behold hundreds of deserted houses on the way to Chernobyl town with your English-Speaking Chernobyl tour guide.
   • Travel through the Zalissya village, once home to more than 3500 people.
   • Discover the town of Chernobyl. The town with more than 4000 residents, most of whom are the person of the Exclusion Zone and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
   • Capture a photograph in front of Chernobyl "Welcome sign", St. Ilya Church and the bell tower, Chernobyl Downtown, main square, Wormwood Star monument, and the Statue of Lenin. Grab this rare chance to see a statue of an infamous communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Ukraine. The new decommunization law does not apply to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Destroyed synagogue, Chernobyl river port 3, and "Monument To Those Who Saved The World". 
   • Pass the Leliv checkpoint- an entrance to the 10 km zone.
   • See the soviet secret military base Chernobyl -2 and Duga over-the-horizon radar station, the most secret object of the Soviet Union, which was marked as a "summer camp" on all topographic maps of that time. The distinctive sound in the air while working (knocking) was called "Russian Woodpecker". The height of the station is about 150 meters, length 800 meters. After 1986, it was frozen, and exploitation was discontinued due to possible damage to electronic equipment.
   • Tour the village of Kopachy (a buried village) and its only building - a kinder garden.
   • Enter the territory of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Cooling towers of the ChNPP, and unfinished building of the 5th reactor of ChNPP. Drive around Chernobyl NPP and stop near the observation deck of the new safe confinement ("Novarka").
   • Stop for a lunch Break at 1:00 pm. You can order lunch while booking the tour or at the meeting point in the morning for $10.
   • Pass by the remains of the Red Forest. A relatively small section of a forest belt, about 10 square kilometres, assumed the largest share of the release of radioactive dust during the explosion. A powerful radiation leak "painted" the forest in a bright red colour. Trees have helped people a lot at the cost of their lives, delaying dozens of tons of radioactive dust like a filter. The pine crown is very dense and well retains dust. This is one of the unique places in the Chernobyl zone, where you can visually observe the effect of radiation on living organisms even today.
   • Take some pictures near the Pripyat welcome sign.
   • Drive through the "Bridge of Death", shown in one of the episodes of HBO's Chernobyl TV series 4.
   • Pass the checkpoint to enter the Pripyat town, an abandoned city with a lot of radioactive fallout at present and dust firmly stuck into the ground, trees, houses. 
   • Go through the dosimetry control at the checkpoint exit from the 10 km zone.
   • Proceed to pass the final dosimetry control at the checkpoint on the way out of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
   • Arrive back to Kyiv, Shuliavska Street, 5 (Metro Station Polytechnic Institute) by 8:00 pm.