Two-, three-, four-, five- and seven-day tours to the Chernobyl zone and Pripyat-town (2024)

Three- and four-day trips are designed in a way to give the tourists a maximal possibility to savour a vast, diverse and singular beauty of the Zone nature. You comprehensively get acquainted with the ChNPP objects, the most important buildings of Pripyat-town, learn a lot about the ancient history of Chernobyl-town, dating back to the 12th century. We not only communicate with selfsettlers in several villages but learn their way of life much deeper in helping them and visiting an amateur local folklore museum.

Certainly, there are places of radiation hazard in the Chernobyl zone. However, the routes we tread are quite SAFE if you follow the directions of the guides.

In order to fully understand and feel the most special matter of the Chernobyl zone – namely, radiation – we highly recommend you to order a personal dosimeter-radiometer Terra-P for your trip.
It will make 'visible' the radiation rate you travel at, constantly informing you about the radiation background. At the end of the day it will show your exact irradiation dose for the whole trip. AsSergii Mirnyi says, "To go to the Chernobyl zone without a dosimeter is like going to the usual tour with your eyes blindfolded."

You can rent the reliable personaldosimeter Terra-P for$10 per day.Just click on the checkbox "Dosimeter" when you are ordering the tour.

IMPORTANT TRIP INFORMATION
We meet from 7:30 to 7:50 a.m. in Kyiv, near Kyiv main railway station - South terminal (meeting place on the map).
We depart from Kyiv at 8:00 a.m. SHARP.
We will arrive back to Kiev approximately at 6 - 9 p.m.
We will arrange overnight in Chernobyl's hotel.
If booked beforehand, at 7-9 p.m. you have dinner at the Chernobyl canteen and at 2 p.m. on the last day - lunch at the canteen of the ChNPP.
A hearty and ecologically-clean meal costs $30per person. It is not included into the cost of the trip and is optional.
If you are a vegetarian, please inform CHERNOBYL TOUR manager about your eating habits when booking the trip.
In case of no-show, the trip payment is not refunded.
You are to have your passport on you!WITHOUT THE PASSPORT NO ONE IS LET IN THE ZONE!
According to the Zone regulations, you are to wear:
- a jacket or a shirt with long sleeves;
- trousers (NO shorts, NO knee-breeches, NO skirts, NO leggings);
- boots or sneakers, which fully cover your feet WITHOUT FANCY OPENINGS please.
Before the departure you have to sign two documents, confirming that you won't have any claims to the Chernobyl zone administration and trip organizers if your private belongings get contaminated or health deteriorates, which may or may not occur during/after the trip.
We travel by a comfortable van (DVD, air conditioning).

To make your trip comfortable and enjoyable, we advise you to:
- have some sandwiches and bottled water with you to have a bite en route;
- be prepared for rain and dew on the grass during the walks on the stops;
- have your personal first aid kit and a repellent;
- wear comfortable clothes and high hiking shoes (boots in winter);
- and most important! –TAKE YOUR PASSPORT! – not ID – without it you won't be let into the Zone!

2-day Trip Program

1) There can be some changes due to weather conditions and upon request of the group!
2) You can see location of the objects/sites atthe map of the Chernobyl Zone.

Day 1:
- 7:30-7:50 registration. Departing from Kyiv at 8:00 am;
- a field camp of the 25th brigade of the radiation chemical and bacteriological protection;
- Dytyatky checkpoint, an official entrance to the Exclusion zone;
- the village of Zalissya with abandoned houses and barns, a shop and the only self-settler Rozaliya Ivanivna;
- a bypass road to the NPP around the town of Chernobyl, built a month after the accident to facilitate the traffic of military vehicles;
- the best angle to see Duga (Russian Woodpecker) – a secret over-the-horizon radio locative station;
- an almost fully buried village of Kopachi with a remaining kindergarten;
- a concrete-reloading unit, essential for the Sarcophagus erection in 1986;
- a decontaminated Red Forest at place of the first and worst radioactive fall-out;
-the town of Pripyat populated by 50 thousand people before the evacuation (without entering buildings inside)
- the hospital receiving the firefighters and NPP workers, badly affected by the accident;
- a river port and the most prestigious Pripyat café at the embankment;
- a town hall – the first headquarters for mitigation of the accident consequences;
- Polissya hotel, a correction point for helicopters dropping lead bags over the 4th reactor ruins;
- Energetic Palace of culture, the main recreational site for the Prypyat youth;
- Ferris wheel in the amusem*nt park which was never opened;
- a fire station, the crew were the second to extinguish fire at the NPP at night of the disaster on April 26, 1986;
- Chernobyl NPP:
- the Sarcophagus and the New Safe Confinement ("Arch") – an observation point at a 300 m distance and/or pavilion visit;
- a fire station at the NPP, the crew arrived the first to extinguish fire at the NPP after explosion,
- memorial "Life for Life” in front of the administrative building, there used to be an enormous parking lot in 1986: thousands of people arrived there daily for NPP decontamination, the Sarcophagus construction, etc.;
- a NPP cooling pond (feeding giant catfish – depending on the season);
- the town of Chernobyl..
- a helicopter pad;
- a former parking lot for armored vehicles of radiation reconnaissance;
- an open-air exhibition of transport vehicles and robots used in 1986-clean up activities;
- a river port with abandoned radioactive ships and steamers at Pripyat riverbank;
- Memorial "Wormwood Star”;
- check-in the state hotel;
- ecologically-clean dinner(vegetarian meal available upon request).
Day 2:
- breakfast in Chernobyl-town (vegetarian meal available upon request);
- the world’s best memorial "To Those who Saved the World’ to the first victims of the accident, flower-laying ceremony;
- an amateur zoo at Chernobyl firestation backyard: wild and domestic animals;
- a motor-tractor station in 10-km Zone with lots of radioactive vehicles including tractors, trucks and obstacle-removing military tanks;
- the secret soviet object Chernobyl-2 (radar "DUGA-1"). Giant radar antenna "DUGA-1" (Russian Woodpecker), secret town of Chernobyl-2 which provided the efficiency of antennas and horizon tracking of the launching of ballistic missiles.
- Fish and rodent scientific experimental base;
- Pripyat river left bank, acquaintance with nature of the river flood plain;
- cooling towers of the Chernobyl NPP 3rd stage;
- Pripyat-town: in-depth program(without entering buildings inside);
- Paryshiv village, meeting with selfsettlers-samosely;
- dinner(vegetarian meal available upon request).>

During 1-day tour to the Chernobyl zone you will receive a radiation dose equal to approximately 1-hour jet flight that is 160 times less than the dose received during a single chest x-rays, and 3600 times less than in the one the whole body CT scan!

3-day Trip Program

1) There can be some changes due to weather conditions, and upon request of the group!
2) You can see location of the objects/sites atthe map of the Chernobyl Zone.

Day 1:

4, 5, 6, 7-day Trip Program

Day 1-3:
- described above;

Day 4-7:
- breakfast in Chernobyl-town
– enchanced exploring of the new locations according to the group's wishes.
- 6-9 p.m. of the last day of the tour – arrival to Kiev main railway station.