Pripjat city is the best place you can visit during the Chernobyl disaster area. You should buy a tour (in Kiev city) what could be seemed expensive but there is not any other legal chance to visit the place. Pripyat is pretty big town located just a few kilometers from the crashed powerplant. Almost no radiation surrounding at all so do not worry about that with a licensed guide. You would receive more radiation when you have a transatlantic flight then here for couple days. For Chernobyl “funs” I really advise visiting the area for 2-3 days. It is a pretty big and it is no chance to see everything interesting within one day. It is forbidden to visit the place without the licensed guide. Please “LIKE” my review if I helped you a bit :-)

A must visit if you are in Ukraine. Rather poignant to visit a ghost town that was once populated by the brightest minds in Ukraine and USSR. The loss must be unimaginable. The amusement park was about to be opened before the tragedy fell. Many loss perhaps could have been minimized if there were more transparency. A good reminder to live life to the fullest at any given day.

Poignant reminder how technology can ruin lives. We walked through a ghost town to where 36 years ago families should have been able to enjoy themselves with all the fun of the fair. Heartbreaking. Mo no no

Update March 2023: Looking back to December 2021. In 1986 reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Power Station blew up. To this days it remains the world's worst nuclear disaster. With Chernobyl's proximity to Kyiv we definitely had to go. An 8am bus from Kyiv's main train station followed by a two hour drive took us to the 30 kilometre (outer) exclusion zone. Our English speaking guides were knowledgeable, informative and most importantly interesting. No one wants to spend an entire day with a guide who has suffered a 'charisma bypass'. The guides must have done this tour a thousand times yet it did not seem to curb their enthusiasm. Across the border into the independently managed Chernobyl exclusion zone; passports checked, all in order. First stop. A small town just inside the zone - an introduction to the catastrophe visited on this area. It was so sad to see the decay, the result of 35 years of abandonment. The smiley kid's slide nodded to hope, hope of past generations and I suppose the future. Then to the actual town of Chernobyl, an old settlement founded way before the city of Pripyat and the power station that the city served. In the town of Chernobyl It was remarkable to see people getting on with their lives - one guy leisurely walked his dog whilst visiting the shop. You could forget for a moment that you were actually inside the zone, but only for a moment. The second checkpoint followed - the 10 kilometre zone. A long winding road took us to the playground for children that turned out to be a Soviet Union missile defence radar, a relic of the Cold War. The enormity of the radar known as Duga was mind-blowing. Visiting the radar takes a lot of time out of the day but I wouldn't change it. The reactor came into view or should I say the arch that entombs it. [pinch yourself, am I really this close?... Yes]. Several hundred pictures later it was time to visit the last stop the city of Pripyat. Like New York the city felt familiar because we have seen it so many times on television. It was awesome but decaying so fast that nature will overtake it in a few years. It has turned into the most unlikely science experiment. The highlight and unmistakable image of the Chernobyl disaster - The Ferris Wheel of the amusement park that never was. The tour was absolutely brilliant.

This is one of only four such buildings. Two of them where in Moscow. Energetik was cutlural hub of Pripyat. There was theatre room there, gym and other. In the lobby is an old communist painting on the wall. Every time I am there the painting is more faded. It is prohibited to enter but when you do, please be very careful on the main staircase. It is full of debris and it is easy to fall down. This is a beautiful place for all S.t.a.l.k.e.r.s and urbex lovers. From the gym in the back of the building is a nice view in the Ferris wheel.

They were preparing to celebrate a national holiday

One of a kind experience. Amazing place and a must visit if you're in Ukraine

Great place, incredible views, radiactive river and land, you can't even imagine the beauty of this place, but also you must understand the horrible things which happened hear 32 years ago, when chernobyl atomic station explode.

What an experience, Chernobyl! If you are going to the Ukraine you need to do this tour! Fantastic!!!