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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Solo East Travel: Chernobyl Tour

http://www.tourkiev.com/

23 Years Later, You can now tour the Reactor, town, and surroundings.

BOOK YOUR TOUR TO CHERNOBYL

You can book a private tour or join one of the scheduled group tours below. If you're already in Kiev call us at 406-3500 and we might offer a very good price for you, students discounts for the tours scheduled on the next few days.



Watch in 2011 on Travel Channel - Julian and Camilla's World Odyssey in Chernobyl.
We provide the best guides - Watch our guests Filip & Fredrik i Tjernobyl (Swedish/English)



BOOK YOUR TOUR TO STRATEGIC MISSILE FORCE BASE

(Near Pervomaysk 300 km South of Kiev.)

The high light of the trip is being a descent 33 meters down to the bottom of the Unified Launch Control Center!




  • Take an underground corridor to the massive doors which lead to a self-contained silo-based 12-storey Command Post which could function sealed from the outside world for 45 days.
  • Sit in the Command seat and experience what Soviet officers could feel during the Cold War and being in charge of nine missiles SS-22. You can touch the button that could cause a catastrophe if pressed 18 years ago.
  • Look inside SS-18 'Satan' Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - equipped with up to 10 warheads and 40 penaids - it used to give Soviet Union "first strike" advantage over the U.S. - it's operating range 10,200-15,200 km, Weight 209,600 kg (462,000 lb) Length 32.2 m (106 ft) Diameter 3.05 m (10.0 ft).

Sunday, March 22, 2009

A Tour of Chernobyl as it exists today (PICS)


We start not far from the remains of a tiny village. The village was destroyed, and then buried under orders from the soviets for being too radioactive. It was buried out of the Soviets desire to cover up the accident more than anything else. Ironically, the name of the village translated to English is called 'Diggers', kinda prophetic really...

Click here to see all the pics.. | digg story