Chernobyl!

[jack brew]

Would make fascinating holiday in my opinion

http://nikongear.com/Chernobyl/Chernobyl_1.php

Pripyat, the local city, was abandoned in 1986 for the obvious reason, and remains today a time capsule of a Soviet city. The hammer and sickle still appear as murals on tower blocks (I think the only city in the world where this is the case).

Interesting for the history buffs amongst us!

 

[Scaley brat]

You might want to read THIS before you make light of this subject mate, it's quite emotive.

 

[jack brew]

Thanks, I wasn't trying to "make light of the subject". I am genuinly interested in a unique historical event.

Full marks to LQ by the way! Not something I could do.

 

[firestorm]

It's still radioactive and will remain so for some time.
Not my idea of a happy holiday but each to their own I suppose.

 

[jack brew]

It's still radioactive and will remain so for some time.
Not my idea of a happy holiday but each to their own I suppose.

300 years to go I think!

I wouldn't call it a happy holiday at all, but something that would be "interesting" if that is the right word to use. After all how many people go to Auschwitz?

It's worth seeing.

 

[Seymour Tw@tt]

What I found most repellent after Chernobyl was how the west sneeringly had a pop at the Soviets for dodgy reactors when what they needed was humanitarian aid.

Like, Windscale and Harrisburg/Three Mile Island didn't happen, right?

DT_Xtremez_35:

 

[pie sandwich]

If anyone got Call of Duty 4 Modern warfare for christmas you would have seen that you go through towns such as Pripyat and chernobyl.

It would look like they have based the game on real pictures of these towns.

If you go HERE it has a write up and pictures of some guys trip around the town.





The main topic on that site is computer gaming, so no sla**ing me off if someone out there thinks I have been insensitive by comparing a computer game to the aftermath of a very bad disaster.

 

[FOMz]

Scary.............

 

[laboratoryqueen]

If anyone got Call of Duty 4 Modern warfare for christmas you would have seen that you go through towns such as Pripyat and chernobyl.

It would look like they have based the game on real pictures of these towns.

If you go HERE it has a write up and pictures of some guys trip around the town.





The main topic on that site is computer gaming, so no sla**ing me off if someone out there thinks I have been insensitive by comparing a computer game to the aftermath of a very bad disaster.

That is extremely spooky. Don't know what is worse, the idea of total silence in the area with no background sound, or that everything remains where it was dropped.

 

[pie sandwich]

To say it looks amazing is to say the least, it is a true insight into the way russia was 20 years ago, it does look almost like a film set its very strange to see a whole town that has just stopped and stood still on just one day.

I for one would very much like to go there and see what it is like, and take a tour around the whole area to see and learn more for myself.

 

[laboratoryqueen]

It is the kind of thing which would need to be experienced to be fully appreciated.

I can't believe some people actually chose to return though I can understand why they'd want to.

 

[jack brew]

I for one would very much like to go there and see what it is like, and take a tour around the whole area to see and learn more for myself.

Amen!

http://wikitravel.org/en/Ukraine#Get_in

 

[Yossarian]

Don't forget that Chernobyl was only the reactor site and some of the lowly populated surounding area. The real human story was at Pripyat, the city built to support the Reactor.

28 Days later, the UK urban explorers website has some amazing photo reports from members who have visited....

Have a look here:

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=17568&highlight=pripyat

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=7786&highlight=pripyat

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=20331&highlight=pripyat

There are tons of threads on the site with photos.... just do a search for Pripyat.

Some are much of a muchness, the fairground, swimming pool, the reactor etc. But it's worth searching through for some gems of photos that you'll not see anywhere else.

There are also some full written reports from people who have travelled there, detailing the checkpoints, radiation checks etc.

Quite creepy, but fascinating.