Finally! A tourist destination for people who think that going to North Korea is too tame: Chernobyl.
I wonder whether visitors will have to wear those dosimeter badges?
You’ll want to avoid the gift shop.
I heard that 50,000 people used to live there… now, it’s a ghost town…
Watch out for snipers.
Snipers? Why would there be snipers?
/is whooshed
I’d love to go. Chernobyl has fascinated me for a long time and I’m very interested in seeing how nature has recovered and taken back the land.
“The first visitors to tour Chernobyl give glowing recommendations! Literally”
A reference to this perhaps.
Perhaps if I visit there I can regain my healthy green glow.
I found this a fascinating read, so it’s a little bit exciting to hear it’s being opened up to tourists.
Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare.
Hee. I shot Zakaev just last night.
The place has been open for bus tours, on at least a limited basis, for some time already. The woman from the site to which you linked is widely, and correctly IMO, regarded as a fake. The majority of her photos were taken when she was on the bus tour. The photos that have a motorcycle in them were all taken outside the restricted zone.
Take your Rad-X and Rad-away. I read a story about someone who went on one of those tours. The tourists wear dosimeter badges and the tour guide has a Geiger counter with them. It’s all very eerie, very sad. I would love to see it, simply to see a large city as it looks abandoned. The people that lived there were told they could go back “any day now” so they didn’t pack as if they’d never see the place again.
And watch out for Super Mutants?
“…a quarter of a century ago.”
Wow. I feel old.
I agree, that would fascinating to go there.
Given what I know of Ukrainian laws and their police agencies, power armor and 10mm pistols aren’t out of the question, but you better have a lot of caps.
And the Enclave soldiers.
“War. War never changes.”
Stranger
The Wikitravel article on Chenobyl strikes me as particularly sad, somehow: http://wikitravel.org/en/Chernobyl
I love bumper cars. 
BTW, there is in fact a gift shop - also a canteen, though I don’t believe I’d be willing to eat there.
Is there anything creepier than a rusted out amusement park? That place must be crawling with zombies.
Nitpick: The Chernobyl nuclear reactor is not in Chernobyl. It’s in Pripyat.