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Originally Posted by Don-Antonio
ok, I wanna know all about the journey and stuff that's on the pictures. I'm gonna hit you up on ICQ about that. BTW I'm going skydiving today for the 1st time, I'm gonna post some pictures soon
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I'm going to get everything written up and placed online soon. We have about 6 pages of notes from the trip, these photos really are a cursorary glance over everything.
I've yet to skydive. I'd love to get a license, but that would mean basejumping, and a significantly shorter lifespan
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Originally Posted by Shoehorn!
Holy shit man, those pictures are fucking amazing. And I am really jealous, I've been trying to find someone to head over to Chernobyl with me for years.  |
Chernobyl was interesting [and also one of the easiest places / things to do].
Book a flight to Kiev, grab a visa [they're issued the same day normally], and then there are multiple places that arrange tours. The tours generally take all day, with a ~2 hour bus ride either way.
You get close, pass the first checkpoint, and then pause at the second.
From here, you drive the outskirts of chernobyl, working your way to the station itself, and then on to Pripyat.
I found the organisation of the trip a little frustrating - we spent so much time dawdling around at useless stops, that we didn't have much time a Pripyat. The station itself is interesting to see, for sure, but I found the real interest was Pripyat.
The one thing that did strike me about the station itself: as a human, you normally expect to be able to sense when you are in peril - so standing next to the station that looks, for all intents and purposes, completely harmless, with a geiger counters going nuts, is quite the experience.
If you do go, the head's up is that they seem fairly lax on watching people in Pripyat. The instant they turned away, we scampered off to play on rooftops and check out as many other buildings as we possibly could.
Finally, as a side note: If you go, take a friend. Not only will it drop your booking cost, but this tour really seems to attract weirdos [hey, we went
] - so having a friend would boost your experience significantly, I'd say.
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Originally Posted by borked
Damn awesome pics - thanks for making my weekend. I really enjoyed them  |
No problems, I've been eager to share these - thank you for taking the time to reply
I actually shot a bunch of photos on a tiny lomo camera too, which actually tell the story of the trip rather well.
If you've got 5 minutes to burn, check out:
http://ninjito.com/dump/world-trip-r...golia-ukraine/
The quality of photos from the lomo is a lot lower, but its size means that I can shoot more quickly, so you get a lot of 'human interest' photos.
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