Now a ghost town, Pripyat, in April of 1986 was home to 50,000. The ferris wheel in the foreground is a grimly ironic reminder of the normality of life before the reactor accident.
The central square of Pripyat. In 22 years vegetation has seeped through concrete.
This amusement park was scheduled to open only four days after the Chernobyl accident, but this never happened. The ferris wheel, swings, bumper cars and the merry-go-round were never used and are now rusting away.
The view from Hotel Polissya in Pripyat reveals that Chernobyl reactor number four is chillingly close to the town where its workers lived.
Visitors to the exclusion zone normally come as part of a tour group. One-day packages which include transportation and food cost around US150-$200, or up to US$300 if there is only one of you.
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