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Chornobyl Tour: good example of grief tourism

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable going anywhere near where V.I. Lenin Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station had its meltdown or whatever you call you it when a nuclear power plant explodes. It was more powerful than Hiroshima and it happened more recently...

But I am not the only traveler in the world, and some people want to visit "tThe exclusion zone guarding the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a 30 kilometer radius of land stuck in the mid- to late-1980’s."

If you want to visit Chornobyl's exclusion zone, here are the tour operators:

SoloEast Travel (www.tourkiev.com) offers year-round guided tours of the Zone, and prices are dependent on the season and number of participants. Single participation tours can reach up to $400, while groups of more than 20 offer lower rates of approximately $100 each.

SAM Travel Agency offers special rates of $95 for groups of seven or more. Packages include return transportation Kyiv to Chornobyl, a guided tour of the Zone, and a hot meal.

Posted by James Trotta at November 30, 2007 11:03 AM | TrackBack