So far behind it had yet to leave to drawing office. As is the progress typically found with infrastructure, air flights had increased dramatically but the airport lagged far behind. Zhuliany is an old domestic Soviet airport that had undergone a period of rapid expansion.
We had no idea what to expect and when we landed at Kyiv Zhuliany Airport we entered utter chaos. We felt that you would not see much, but our minds changed when one of our friends managed to organise for a group of us to spend 3 nights staying within the zone. There lays in the Ukraine the abandoned city of Pripyat, which can be your playground for a small fee, what more could you want? OK, add a train graveyard, a power station, other towns & villages, a huge military installation and the worlds second most radioactive tract of land and you have something! Chernobyl is somewhere that we have always wanted to explore, yet we have never been sold on the idea of flying 1,500 miles to be given a 4-Hour whirlwind tour of a few tourist spots and shooting off again. As an explorer the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is hard to ignore. Planning our visit to Chernobyl all started during a trip to Germany in 2010 whilst we were standing in an underground ammunition dump when vague talk of visiting Chernobyl started and our ears pricked up.
