Since the recent HBO Chernobyl show appeared I’ve had a lot more interest in my travelogues from visiting the Zone of Alienation back in the spring of 2015. I posted these “live” to a tag, which makes them a bit awkward to read sequentially. So, to help anyone I’m linking this to, a combined post. Enjoy…

Part 1 – the journey from Kyiv to the Zone, visiting the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant itself, the construction site for the New Safe Confinement (then incomplete) and the unfinished cooling towers for Reactor V.
Part 2 – exploring the dead city of Pripyat, with highlights including the Palace of Culture, Hotel Polissiya, the famous amusement park, a shopping precinct and residential tower. We then stayed the night in the town of Chernobyl itself.
Part 3 – the next morning, visiting the site of the Duga-2 “Steel Yard” receiver array and the Pripyat hospital.
Part 4 – sites in Pripyat: cafes, a school, swimming pool, post office, fire station, and the monuments and leftovers in the town of Chernobyl itself.