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Chernobyl: Disaster's Disneyland

Sure you've climbed the Eiffel Tower and seen The Sphinx, but when's the last time you toured a radiation "exclusion zone?" For between $70 and $270, Olymp Travel of the Ukraine can arrange a car or bus tour of Chernobyl, site of the world's biggest and most infamous nuclear accident. Not only can you ogle the empty houses of the 76 towns and villages left empty in the wake of the nuclear plant's near meltdown, but you'll see the monument to the 28 firefighters who first fought the fire. Of course, you get to see the Chernobyl plant itself, though only through three layers of barbwire fences. Lunch is provided. Helicopter tours are available for around $600.

http://www.olymp-travel.kiev.ua/incoming/tours/spec_inter/in_tour_chernobyl.htm

Posted by Kadrey at December 10, 2002 03:07 PM

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