Chernobyl

*DUE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, ALL OF OUR TOURS TO CHERNOBYL ARE CURRENTLY ON HOLD*

Experience the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster and the abandoned Soviet ghost town that the catastrophic event left behind. 

On 26th April 1986, Reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kiev Oblast, Ukraine was undergoing a routine safety test when, due to flawed reactor design and inadequate safety procedures, a major failure occurred. This failure led to multiple explosions and a complete meltdown in Reactor no. 4, releasing an air-borne radioactive fallout that went on to contaminate parts of Western Europe and the USSR. The nearby city of Pripyat was evacuated with the population relocated to the purpose-built city of Slavutych and a confinement zone, 30km on all sides from the power plant remains to this day. The reactor itself is covered by a protective sarcophagus.

Now, over three decades later, the radiation has dropped to safe enough levels to allow tours of the confinement zone.  The tour gives visitors the opportunity to view the abandoned reactors and visit the ghost town of Pripyat, a slice of the Former Soviet era frozen in time, punctuated by the iconic ferris wheel that never turned.