Itinerary and Cost

We usually start our Chernobyl tour at 9 a.m.

  • Drive to Chernobyl with passing "Dytyatky" (on the border of the 30-km "Zone of Estrangement").
  • Arrival to Chernobyl. Meeting with the leadership of "Chernobylinterinform" Agency.
  • On the way to Power Plant we pass 10-km border and check point
  • Sightseeing of reactor # 4(from 100 m. distance).
  • Visit to Pripyat. Sightseeing of "Dead town".
  • Stop near the "Red forest".
  • Return to Chernobyl. Lunch.
  • Visit to the Scientific Centre (physical, radiochemical laboratories and others).
  • Calling in "Opachychi" village, meeting with "resettlers", people who have moved back to their villages after evacuation(optional).
  • Important - Passage to "Rossokha" village, cemetery of military machineries - NOT AVAILABLE ON A REGULAR BASIS ANYMORE DUE TO THE ROAD CONDITION
  • Passage through Control Point "Dytyatky". Measuring of radiation.
  • Return to Kiev. (Back in Keiv around 6 p.m.)

The cost per person (starting May 1st, 2008):

  • One Visitor -

    US$ 535.00

  • Two Visitors -

    US$ 275.00

  • Three - Four visitors -

    US$ 215.00

  • Five - Nine visitors -

    US$ 175.00

  • Group of 10-15 -

    US$ 135.00

Important !

  • On entering and leaving the 30 kilometers zone each participant undergo radioactivity control using Western equipment.
  • Although the tour is 100% safe a strict comprehension of a guide's instructions is required in order to avoid unnecessarily exposing to the radioactivity.
  • Photo and video during the tour are permitted (exept check points and places specified by a guide).


  • Cat fish in the cooling pond
    (click to enlarge)
    Cat Fish Near Reactor
Reactor #4 at Chernobyl NPP
What our clients had to say

Video New!

Watch a video about one day trip to Chernobyl and Prypiat (by our client Mr.Ian Elliott)

Lonely Planet

Read Feature Article on Chernobyl by Mat Schulz

Accidental Tourist Travel (Australia)

Read an article on the Tour to Chernobyl by our client

Listen to BBC News interview on Chernobyl

Host Lisa Mullins (BBC) speaks with Sergei Ivanchuk, director of SoloEast Travel company that offers day trips to Chernobyl.

Jim Clancy, CNN INTERNATIONAL Anchor and Femi Oke, CNN Correspondent

Talk to SoloEast Travel company's director about a unique ecological tour on April 26, 2006 - 20 years after the disaster.

The Observer

Read an article- Strange and unsettling: my day trip to Chernobyl

Pallo Hallusa TV Program (Finland)

Tshernobyl – maailman pahin ydinkatastrofi (in Finnish)

Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden)

Illegala bosattare i dodens zon (in Swedish)

Bild (Germany)

Tschernobyl als Touristen-Attraktion (in German)

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"Monument to the Firemen"


Checking radiation where Kopachichy village used to be
Kopachi village


Chernobyl Station
Nuclear Plant and Reactor #4


Pripyat
Pripyat was a home for 48,000 people


Pripyat
Ghost town


Re-settlers
Those who chose to come back


Rosssoha
Cemetery of military machineries