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Belarusian Chernobyl tour
Tour description
Price
per person
The cost of excursions is approved in Belarusian rubles and when paying in other currencies the final cost may differ from the one indicated on the site depending on the exchange rate of the card issuing bank (MIR, Visa, Mastercard).
Included in the price of the excursion:
- certified guide services
- transport services
- excursions according to the program
Description
On 26 April, 1986 there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Over 600 thousand people took part in the elimination of the consequences of the accident, 60 thousand of them died. On the tour you will see how people live in the most affected Gomel region. You will learn about the life of the region before the disaster and after, get acquainted with the architectural heritage of Polissya. And in the end you will visit the zone where people no longer live - only from time to time run through the animals and birds fly by.
Excursion type
Thematic
Distance
700 km
Duration
14:00 hour
Language of training
English
Excursion subject
Kind
Bus-Walking tours
Program
Gathering the group
Belarus, Minsk, railway station, 1st floor, Central escalator, (metro station Ploshcha Lenina)
Moving in Khoiniki (330 km)
Museum of the Polessky State Radiation Ecological Reserve
After visiting the Polessky Museum of Radiation and Ecology Reserve you will see objects that have not left the territory of the Chernobyl Zone near several tens years. You will be told the details of the disaster because of which thousands of people were injured. And also you will learn how the soil, flora and fauna have changed after long years of protection of this territory.
Lunch
Polessky radiation-ecological reserve
To enter the territory of the Polessky radiation-ecological reserve you will be issued special passes. Having traveled along the overgrown roads, you have the opportunity to see animals that live in the area affected by the Chernobyl disaster. The elk often go out to the road, meeting rare guests, blackcock flies. You will pass by villages that have long been inhabited by wild animals. Arriving at the scientific base you will see how the workers of the reserve live, the fire tower from which you can see the territory of the reserve, which, it seems, never ends. You will visit the museum in which materials are collected for 26 years of post-Chernobyl life, observations of scientists, as well as objects of life of Poleshuk from resettled villages.
Moving in Minsk (340 km)
The end of the tour