Posted: 2/20/2013 7:43:59 PM EDT
| Have any of you guys ever had the chance to visit Chernobyl. Seems like it would be a pretty cool / interdasting vacation to go and tour the area and get some pretty amazing pictures. |
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There's some pretty cool photo journals online. I'll try to find a few.
ETA: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/ |
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I would, how many people can say they have ever been to it? The site still has people working at it, so what could go wrong? The only part of the trip I would be concerned about is flying on a Russian airline, more specifically any Russian airliine. Is there any other than Aeroflot? Or, "airplane disaster central airlines of Russia?" 
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There are many people working for DOE who visit Chernobyl area often lots of stuff going on there. As for the night life....well, if you are single making good wages....many very notable experiences can be had from the local single ladies. WARNING: Your liver needs to be in shape for the..."experience" The ladies want to get get married to American men and REALLY try hard to win you over
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Quoted: Just seems like a pretty awesome place. Pretty sure it's a place that pictures would not do it justice. I've got a couple of cousins that are game for making the trip with me but for some reason the wife is anti radiation vacation... Leave the wife at home go play S.T.A.L.K.E.R in real life! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: speaking of which, did anyone see that horror movie that came out last year or so that was supposed to take place in cherynoble with tourists? Thanks for reminding me. No, I haven't. What was the name again? chernobyl diaries And it sucked. We were disappoint. |
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Yes.
First was "Oh, is great, Anatoly, lots of artifacts is found in the Zone, you can sell for piles of rubles so big to swim in." So I tell foreman at Skoda factory, "podumay o sebe, assbag! I leave now to die rich!" I go to fat wife, start to say same thing, instead just leave. Not risk making her happy on accident. Get to Zone. First, fuck this. Three days ride in back of back of truck that probably made by blind Kazakhs from lead foil. Then get shooting at by perimeter guards. Still not rich. Then find jackass buyer and seller of crap Sidorovich. Assbag is literally bag of ass, always eating and farting and smells like the Volga, cheap as shit. Sends me off into hills with stupid little pistol and knife. Says "watch for anomalies!" I say "how are they look", Sidorovich the assbag says "was nice have known you". Fucker. Then fucking mutants. Then wild dogs with skins falling off and no eyes. Then giant mutant rats in thousands like mongol-tartars. Then mutant pigs charge me while sleeping like fat California tourists to Lenin's Tomb. Then fucking bloodsuckers. Bloodsuckers. Stop laughing, much scarier than stupid American sparkles dick-sucker version. Two meters tall, full of muscle, roar in the dark, invisible, make no sounds. You shit pants faster than Yeltsin empties vokda bottle. I did. Proud, too! I LIVED WITH SHITTED PANTS, Vasili got eated. You proud of shit pants too then. Two months here, three pairs of pants shitted, bloodsucker tear off one finger, have bullet in ass from bandit, and zombie from brain-scorcher tripping on me while asleep in old dacha. Fucking zombies. And no good sleep for the two months, none. Giant fucking moaning sound shake the ground all the time. Like giant fucking dieing whale! FOR ALL THE FUCK! I WALK MANY KILOMETERS OVER THIS ZONE, SEE ALL TYPE STUPID FUCKING UP SHIT, ZOMBIES, MUTANTS, HAVE MY BRAIN HALF SCORCHED, NEVER SEE ANY WHALE! FUCK YOU ZONE, I DIE BROKE BUT SLEEP GOOD FINALLY. EVEN IF FAT WIFE THERE. FUCK YOU. |
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Quoted: Yes. First was "Oh, is great, Anatoly, lots of artifacts is found in the Zone, you can sell for piles of rubles so big to swim in." So I tell foreman at Skoda factory, "podumay o sebe, assbag! I leave now to die rich!" I go to fat wife, start to say same thing, instead just leave. Not risk making her happy on accident. Get to Zone. First, fuck this. Three days ride in back of back of truck that probably made by blind Kazakhs from lead foil. Then get shooting at by perimeter guards. Still not rich. Then find jackass buyer and seller of crap Sidorovich. Assbag is literally bag of ass, always eating and farting and smells like the Volga, cheap as shit. Sends me off into hills with stupid little pistol and knife. Says "watch for anomalies!" I say "how are they look", Sidorovich the assbag says "was nice have known you". Fucker. Then fucking mutants. Then wild dogs with skins falling off and no eyes. Then giant mutant rats in thousands like mongol-tartars. Then mutant pigs charge me while sleeping like fat California tourists to Lenin's Tomb. Then fucking bloodsuckers. Bloodsuckers. Stop laughing, much scarier than stupid American sparkles dick-sucker version. Two meters tall, full of muscle, roar in the dark, invisible, make no sounds. You shit pants faster than Yeltsin empties vokda bottle. I did. Proud, too! I LIVED WITH SHITTED PANTS, Vasili got eated. You proud of shit pants too then. Two months here, three pairs of pants shitted, bloodsucker tear off one finger, have bullet in ass from bandit, and zombie from brain-scorcher tripping on me while asleep in old dacha. Fucking zombies. And no good sleep for the two months, none. Giant fucking moaning sound shake the ground all the time. Like giant fucking dieing whale! FOR ALL THE FUCK! I WALK MANY KILOMETERS OVER THIS ZONE, SEE ALL TYPE STUPID FUCKING UP SHIT, ZOMBIES, MUTANTS, HAVE MY BRAIN HALF SCORCHED, NEVER SEE ANY WHALE! FUCK YOU ZONE, I DIE BROKE BUT SLEEP GOOD FINALLY. EVEN IF FAT WIFE THERE. FUCK YOU.  |
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Fucking great movie! |
| I'd like to one year when wife and I go to odessa to visit her famil , but as my wife says "ukrainians don't even go there, only stupid americans". That was enough to talk me out of it when we visit kiev this summer. But I've got the okay to see the reactor plant from a safe distance via binoculars. |
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Did you watch it upside down or some shit?
You are half way to learning to read Russian, Komrade. Step 1 - Get drunk. Work only with vodka, komrade Step 2 - Acquire paper written in Russian Step - Turn paper upside down Step 4 - Read backwards Step 5 - Enjoy, comrades. Remember, in Soviet Russia, book reads you. |
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The flight is going to be the worst part of all of it. When is the best time weather wise to visit the Ukraine. Spring. 70's and mild. Summer is HOT! Like 100+ hot and humid. Flights are no bad. Delta lands in kiev so it's a short time car ride to prypiat. Customs can be intimidating as nothing is in English. Fill out your form when they are handed out on the plane and have a pen with you. If you try and fill out the forms in customs you will find no pens or pencils and no one willing to help. Unless you speak russian. Once you make it through customs you go into a xray area and then are dumped into a terminal filled with people selling shit and taxi drivers who hound you like wolves. Once you get out of the parking lot all is well. For the moment,,, |
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Its on the bucket list, with times beach MO, and Love Canal NY, although I may have to visit the latter through Canada as I refuse to spend money in that communist state. It's nothing special, just a state park now. However, I did see an albino deer while I was walking around the park.
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