Tour to Pripyat

Fairies attack · Banned Joined: 21 May 2011 Karma :

Would anyone be up for it?

I've been there before, and really want to go again.
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TheSmiler · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Apr 2011 Karma :

Although I'm not sure if you have been there, but since I learned about this place from call of duty 4. I've always been interested and intrigued how it happened and what it would be like to actually view it. Love games life Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas which are similar (even though it wasn't caused by a nuclear warhead).

Also had an interest in old abandoned buildings as well would love to go to Russia just for that reason and take a camera with me get some awesome shots, to see how everything was left in a hurry as Pripyat was abandoned so fast almost everything was left behind.

Call me weird but I still find them cool... link here for interesting abandoned places (clicky)
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Fairies attack · Banned Joined: 21 May 2011 Karma :

Pripyat is an amzing place.

Pretty much like time has stood still.

When I went on the tour with my ex, we were both freaked out by how quiet it is there, a once busy city now dead, and everyone gone.

I found when walking around there, that I was expecting people to walk round the corner and not notice us, but it is dead.

One thing which I did connect to was the Ferris wheel in COD, it is there and does actually look like that.

If I could I would have loved to taken the Gayger(?) counter and gone for a walk on my own round there. Truly fascinating place to be in.
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WildGoose · White Van Man Joined: 21 Mar 2002 Karma :

Bore off Jackanory.
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Louise · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 May 2006 Karma :

Me and the Mrs plan on going this year Thumbs Up

Found one website which seems to be ok, $200 each as were not going in a bigger group.
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keggyhander · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Karma :

The "Pripyat-Love" exhibited by game geeks never fails to amuse me.

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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

I have been to Gomel Belarus (Twice) 50 K north of there. Terrific fun if you like seeing kids with cancer. How come this is the first time you have mentioned this visit Warped, did it slip your mind, do you have any photos?
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Think he has. He survived, turned into what we know him as today. Clearly some damage has been done Confused

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swampy · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Karma :

Honestly, you lot are a bunch of cynics..

Warped sent me some pics from his last trip to Pripyat...

https://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g378/swmpy50/warpedcod.jpg

https://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g378/swmpy50/ScreenHunter_008.jpg

Conclusive proof, I think you'll agree.. He asked me to post them because he has lost the lead to his camera.
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hopefully the trip has fried your gonads and made you infertile Rolling Eyes

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CarlosCBR · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Mar 2010 Karma :

Urbex'er (sp?) from my local town has been there loads on trips, studied pretty much every inch of the city. Would love to go there myself.

Heres his website. Some of the pictures are incredible:

https://www.urbanxphotography.co.uk/pripyat-2011
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cornish · Forum Conscience Joined: 03 Feb 2011 Karma :

Well, this is a very interesting post, thank you.

I glanced at it yesterday evening and - since i've done none of this gaming malarky - had to google Pripyat. From the resulting hours of reading on the subject it seems like it would be an intense experience. There does seem to be an odd beauty about the ways nature is reclaiming the town and some of the 'graffiti' imho counts as pretty powerful art.

Having said that, reading the small bit i could stand to read about the children born after the event that have been abandoned in the orphanages was sickeningly horrible.

It would definately be an experience albeit an extremely grim one.

I read several pieces about the details of the actual explosion and the clean-up after. Although the science of what happened was way over my head it was pretty scary stuff. One bit that stuck out was the fact that the concrete they put up to enclose the reactor in 1986 was a temporary measure only designed to last around 20-30 years, so we are fast approaching the upper estimate of it's lifespan. Apparently the construction of a better one over this is way behind schedule and fast running out of money.

The nuclear stuff that escaped and caused the disaster and the ongoing effects was apparently only 5% of what was in there. The other 95% is still in there under a crumbling and inadequate container. There were also a number of scary issues about sealing underneath the reactor. TBH i could have done without finding that out Shocked

So yes, if i could i would like to experience a visit to that place. . . . .but since it seems to be a much bigger accident waiting to happen i would want to make it a short one. Thumbs Up

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h00dwink · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 May 2006 Karma :

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If you have been there (which you have not) show some pictures. I'd love to go there and if I had I would probably have a hard drive full of snaps ready to show to anyone who so much as glanced in my direction.
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