Best Eastern Tourist Hotel

87 Sovetskaya street, Gomel, Belarus | Hotel

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Our Journey to Chernobyl

A travel blog entry by adamandlara55

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... true... What is the point? We headed to the meeting place, feet dragging and nerves jangling. Our main concern being that they wouldn't allow us to join the tour. After all our hard work to get here, that would be a fatal blow. Makayla breezed up 10 minutes later and quickly allayed our fears. She would accept our Hyrvnas of course! I think we nearly kissed the ground she walked on! If we hadn't of just seen a man dribbling everywhere, we just might have. We ...

In the shadow of Chernobyl

A travel blog entry by sranmal

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... to be opened up for mass tourism. As an ex-Nuclear Safety engineer, this would be the highlight of my trip to Eastern Europe. There was also added poignancy as I lived in a small town which is the largest town near to the nuclear power station where I worked.

So, what happened to cause the accident itself? I've tried to keep the following description brief and simple. A test was being conducted by operators to determine the capability of cooling pumps ...

Up and Atom Fallout Boy!

A travel blog entry by zullyzazaza

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... who both had awesome sense of humor) and a couple older gentlemen from the Netherlands and the UK.
After presenting passports and checking in on the bus, we were treated to a documentary for the hour and a half drive to the Restricted Zone. It was quite a somber experience watching the documentary as the country side slowly turned into a depopulated region. After passing through two military passport control ...

Apocalypse Wow!

A travel blog entry by ware_daniel

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... my throat (reminding me that I’m still actually recovering from the flu), and stumble through an expedited morning routine. No time to dilly dally this morning. Today, I made my way to Chernobyl. In any other year, this would probably be the most bizarre placed I’ve visited, but it still ranks up there.

After breakfast, we began a nice morning stroll across the city to meet up with our van. The weather ...

Chernobyl

A travel blog entry by mistyofthedane

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... drove for 2 hours to the edge of the exclusion zone. Upon arriving our passports were checked and we went to pick up our escort from the Ukrainian Army. 

Our first stop was to the reactor sarcophagus, where we were able to speak to a lady who explained to us exactly what happened, and what the plans are for the future containment of the radioactive lava. She showed us a model which explained to us how the reactor is inside, and why it's so difficult to get any work done in the ...

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