I’ve just returned from a tour around the exclusion zone and it was great. Like other hotels, the Desyatka has the usual guest amenities: a café and restaurant, a bar and even wifi, which means you can enjoy the unusual experience of sending emails from one of the most cut off places on Earth. Still remember your post that started out with the wedding bride parade. Abandoned swings and toys. After-all, this was part of our first Ukraine “Pop-Up Tour”, a gathering of intrepid “Untourists” from all around the planet – China, USA, Australia, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand, along with our local Ukrainian fixer. Your email address will not be published. Not accounting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R’s, around sixteen-thousand tourists officially visited Pripyat over a twelve month period – almost all of them day-trippers from Kiev. On the other side, we got a chance to climb on abondoned cranes. This is not an unsafe level to pass by, but it was an indication that this building was really not like the rest of Pripyat. By the way, I’d like to meet this Michelle chick. the effect it has on human tissue, which is measured in I would suggest an overnighter, at least, should be carefully considered as a “requirement” of visiting the Exclusion Zone. There is also a risk that due to snow, entry to Pripyat is forbidden on certain days. And this is why I found it a particularly strange choice of moments for one of our guests to mention “ya know, Nate, Nuclear Power is actually one of the safest ways to generate power”. Those of us in “the West” old enough to remember 1986 have blurry pre-internet recollections. Although the Exclusion Zone is mostly deserted, the area directly around reactor four is a hive of activity. Put it and al, you had on it in a lead lined boxed and vow never to open or look at it again. I am so jealous of your pictures. Where Chernobyl town and the power-plant area soon turned into a nest of new activities, mainly connected with the sealing, monitoring and recover of the leaking plant, most of the villages in the isolated zone turned into ghost towns. And, watched many documentaries on the events of the disaster, and the aftermath. A handful of visitors also can spend the night in the Chernobyl Exclusive Zone at two small guest houses in the town of Chernobyl, which also is mostly abandoned. This menacing sounding message is well served, for the Hotel Desyatka is located deep in the Exclusion Zone surrounding the infamous, stricken nuclear reactor in Chernobyl. Without much radiation here! She sounds hot. But if spending the … The hotel itself is simple, best described as being in the ‘Soviet’ style. Look online and the Hotel Desyatka appears on booking sites like most other hotels. All the best with recovery, hope everything goes as well as can be expected, stay strong buddy! That was my real life twist Nate-style…not very good, but true! Dinnertime in the hotel doesn’t come with a menu, but traditional Ukrainian food is promptly served, without an option. In summer, it’s extremely green, with flowers :). I turned towards the building, and at that moment, Michelle came walking outside. You will receive mail with link to set new password. If you wanna retry my experience and spend up to 6 days in the zone (not 2-3 hours like with a bus excursion) and feel the entire atmosphere of the post-apocalyptic world without people under the guidance of an experienced stalker-guide, mail to info@urbextour.com and we will try to organize a hike. It probably attracted energies that are not conducive to life. Online and the aftermath the soft side, an altogether shadier man was all... Don ’ t be quite that cold won ’ t be changing anytime soon – so consequences... 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