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    Chernobyl Trip

    Few pics from my trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone

    A fun day out for all the family


    Entering





    Memorial







    Pripyat - the abandoned workers town




















    Approaching reactor 4.. covered up by the new steel cover







    lunch at the workers canteen



    Duga 3, Soviet ballistic missile radar






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    Man, what a bleak place. Interesting in a bizzare kind of wat. Thanks SP.

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    SP, what were the rules when visiting the ruins of the workers town? I saw somewhere they were being preserved to study the decay of the town and people could only look, but not touch.

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    Excellent pics, as always. Cheers SP.

    Very interesting place to visit for sure, would like to go there myself one day, though not for very long.


    I imagine it's a bit similar in eeriness to visiting some of the smaller concentration camps.

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    Another good one punty, don't blame you for leaving the lunch.

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    you lucky bastard, was planning to go there myself, big boom in tourism since the HBO TV series

    how much is the entrance fee? and was it easy to book?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    you lucky bastard, was planning to go there myself, big boom in tourism since the HBO TV series

    how much is the entrance fee? and was it easy to book?
    Just Google . There's loads of tours

    Bout £140 pp

    Rules are - don't touch anything

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShrewedPunter View Post
    Rules are - don't touch anything
    I bet.


    Do they supply one of those geiger counters?

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    Cheers for the effort Puntmeister but that reminds me of daytrips to Belsen as a kid with my dad and bros whilst my schoolmates were off to Wonderland- the German Alton Towers.
    Also shades of Phnom Penhs attractions

    And whats with that London eye ride over such a morbid place- reminds me of the Thai comedy I saw being filmed right next to Kanchanaburi's death railway and all the Thais doing two fingered selfies there and the inflatable rides for hire below.

    Can you come back and show these fuckers how to do a shagging thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Can you come back and show these fuckers how to do a shagging thread?
    Please, SP, we've been stuck (so to speak) with Luigi's pitiful efforts...save us!

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    The rides are abandoned since 1986..

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    This guy compares it to Auschwitz too

    https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-iss...-safe-or-right

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luigi View Post
    I bet.


    Do they supply one of those geiger counters?

    Yeah 10 euro extra.

    I just robbed the tour guides one when I wanted it

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    #shrewedpunter


    It seems like I'm recommending Top Gear specials to every intrepid TD'er on here. But they did a very good race to run out of fuel before reaching Chernobyl special a few years ago. 2 of them fail and make it inside. Think the torrent link is up in the download TV shows thread.

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    champion stuff puntski

    surprised the russkis are still doing this kind of tour

    they have got a bit touchy about the disaster (they call the accident I think) since the hbo series from what I read

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    Well done again Mr Punski.

    I've been to the Ukraine, but never Chernobyl.

    I hope you did are planning to get to Odessa on the Black Sea ... it's a mecca for the Baltic to holiday at.

    Super Models everywhere you look.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luigi View Post
    Very interesting place to visit for sure, would like to go there myself one day, though not for very long.
    You'd better wait for a while , plutonium has a half-life of 24000 years..

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    £140 per person what the fuk

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    surprised the russkis are still doing this kind of tour
    It is in Ukraine not Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    It is in Ukraine not Russia.
    In fairness, it does seem a bit like Russia.

    I've visited a few times and on my first visit took a Ukrainian phrase book.

    Stayed at Kaharkiv, in the west of the Ukraine, near the Russian border ... they all speak Russian there.

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    I was hoping for a pic of Punty's radioactive Chernobilian girlfriend, but I guess this one will have to do.


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    Recently watched a French documentary about building - and move in - a gigantic arc containment shield - New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter) - an impressive project financed by EU + others (also Russia)

    Unique engineering feat concluded as Chernobyl arch has reached resting place

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    I take it you can throw away your battery recharger now.

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    Great thread, thanks.

    BTW I heard a lot of older people have moved back in to their old homes and grow their vegetables. They don't mind the radiation. It is not legally allowed but the authorities don't care. Radiation no longer is that strong except for a few hotspots. Wildlife thrives in this unique sanctuary. Not that I would advice younger people to stay there long time.
    "don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    It is in Ukraine not Russia.
    Doh!!

    Yes of course. the oo-kra-een probably relish the opportunity to humiliate their erstwhile CCCP brethren by association with some embarrassing post-soviet-apocalypse-disaster-tourism.

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