Trip to Chernobyl and Pripyat - April 2009 (Part 1)

[NO0Bstatus]

12nd... lol

[xxitttixx]

how big is the city?

[starquant]

Lol who needs a War, just invite all the stupid tourists and let the Radiation finish them off ... LOL.

[bakura10]

@ThePaintLooksGood Haha of course it feels normal. You can't see or smell radiations. When it exploded, radiation level was so high that people felt sick (nausea), but nowadays the air is normal (well, radioactivity is higher that in Kiev but you feel normal).

[nickyforiasha]

tchernobyl? lol

[bakura10]

@nickyforiasha Yes ?

[ralbiruni]

Puisque tout va mieux, il suffit de faire repartir les réacteurs et retourner habiter là bas. Quel est le prix du m² ?

[HavokCorporation2011]

I never know about the Chernobyl disaster.

Nice vid!!

[paintballgundown8]

2:26 Those people are screwed, In COD thats a radioactive zone

[nickyforiasha]

@paintballgundown8 and in soc, cs, and cop

[nonameplayer]

its like in fallout game

[Shark00n1337]

I meant the city

[Shark00n1337]

The vitu hás a very "half life 2" or videogame feel to it...

[stijnxd]

Better whatch out in that area.. radiation sickness is a mean bitch..

[Schwabo83]

How come everything is broken, there are no windows, no doors, no furniture.. there was no blast? :/

thives?

[WebShareMusic]

@Schwabo83 things break in time, strong winds for example..

[ginny7676]

@Schwabo83 They've caught looters on camera actually, stealing heater radiators and such. That might explain the damage to things like windows and be the cause of some of the mess inside of buildings.

[nickyforiasha]

@Schwabo83 long time no live, thats why

[jcrulesfootball]

Amazing didn't know you could actually go into the buildings aswell can you take a piece of rubble or a book from the building as a keepsake?

[krb944]

wow..very nice,intresting.. :) cant wait to get 18 years old,then i can get there..

what is felling to be there..? :)

[joyscreamofseagulls]

To those visiting this site, doesn't the thought of ingesting radioactive material worry you? You may be told it's safe but how can it be? People will sometimes 'bend' the truth when money is involved.

[bakura10]

@joyscreamofseagulls Sure. If you go there, you must not think about that, otherwise you're going crazy ;). For those who are scared (which I understand) they just don't go. Two doctors in France told me it is safe considering how much time we said. But yeah, of course this is less safe than going to Spain =).

[darthnefas]

@bakura10 Belarus and Kiev have hot spots and Germans need wild boar tested for radioactivity so how can any sane person think being this close could be even remotely safe!

[alex054739]

@joyscreamofseagulls Actually it safe to stay there for like 10 mins around that.

yaya the water is going to out ocean?

[whitetoshiro]

I wish I could have seen all this with my own eyes

[whitetoshiro]

I wish I could see all of this with my own eyes

[mrcakey]

I've seen a LOT of these videos and this one really gives a great feeling of what it's like to be there.

I'm saving up so that I can get a 2 man tour with my friend. Hopefully before the 25th anniversary.

[bakura10]

@mrcakey Thanks ;) Don't forget to watch the other parts !

[bonemantis]

1 Person- $400-450 each

3-4 People- $190 each

11-17 People- $160 each

[bakura10]

@bonemantis Exactly, it's much more expensive than when I went one year ago :/.

[alex054739]

@bonemantis Not expensive ;D just need to find people who want to go. xD

[MultiAREE]

why isnt there any trees or moss or anything growing? Im sure the radiation has gone down to life sustainable levels

[loststudiosINC]

@MultiAREE No way, it won't for decades. Maybe Fifty years untill it's liveable.

[MultiAREE]

@loststudiosINC There's like whole shows on how wildlife is returning to the villages around Prypiat. It seems most of these documentaries on YouTube were filmed during fall or winder

[NiNNNtech]

i love chernobyl and pripyat !

[HeyMarkedOne8]

I wanted to see that second Sarcophagus is under construction process!At least they started!It was suposed to be done until 2010-2011 but they did just started...I will give it 2015

[mtncanslover]

I LOVE chernobyl, so intressting! would love to travel there someday, how do I get in contact with a tour? :)

[bakura10]

@mtncanslover You can go to chernobylzone to be informed of the next trips.

[mtncanslover]

@bakura10 Thanks :)

[jarvin007]

@DarkZzZor How??? mmmm

[1979jondam]

lol the guy in the white suit has the right idea bet there from the west

[jarvin007]

This is so cool I never knew about it until one day i looked up Chernobyl on Google after playing cod4 and mw2

[LordDonib]

@jarvin007 go play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. if you think it's cool

[DarkZzZor]

@jarvin007 fucking idiot...

[MultiAREE]

@DarkZzZor Just leave him fucking alone, he realized the place existed after he played a game and though it was awesome how its like all deserted though everything is still intact, he didn't know the whole story of how people died of the radiaton and like mutated newborns, being an asshole means that the person u were being an asshole to before is gonna become an asshole himself, and then harass others and make then complete dicks too

[shannonfoe1]

can you go there by yourself? like without a tour guide?

[bakura10]

No. It's not Disneyland.

[1979jondam]

@bakura10 can you go at night ?

[bakura10]

@1979jondam I don't think so.

[1979jondam]

@bakura10 thanks for the reply it would be spooky tho

[Contreras12349]

@shannonfoe1

you can do that with no problem

if you know how to get there

[bakura10]

You're welcome :).

[cekinxxx]

is there an entry fee? how much does it cost if yes?

[nakada7224]

Dude, its ghost towns filled with massive levels of radiation. Its not an amusement park. I used to be a driver for a guide that would take people into the zone. He was awesome... But ya.

[cekinxxx]

so is it free to enter prypiat?

[nakada7224]

Basicly ya, but I wouldnt go by myself. Take an expert or a guide.

[ckmacboy]

@cekinxxx Its like $150-500 I believe, but I think it depends how many people in a group

[bakura10]

Yup, it depends. Private tours cost around 400-500 $. I personnally paid only around 60$, but we were 45 (then split into three groups in Pripyat, one with an English guide.

[ckmacboy]

@bakura10 I'd like to see it someday, maybe if I travel europe after school. Where does the tour take you? do you go through a lot of the buildings?

[bakura10]

Yes, we went through a lot of buildings : hospital, swimming pool, hairdresser, school... Some other groups go into flats.

[ckmacboy]

@bakura10 That's cool

[IceCreamSteve1]

Well your looking at the best example of human error. all it took was one day to accidentally turn a life filled town into an inhabitable wasteland.

[bakura10]

Exactly. I strongly recommand everyone read how the accident happen... It's quite scary !

[matty7244]

@bakura10 all they did was not fallow all saftey rules and cause reactor 4 to over heat, and explode

[bakura10]

"all they did". I think that not respecting safety rules, and do some stress test without any security is quite a scary thing.

[Ditjedatje]

its dangerous to go there...are you people stupid?...

[davesm8]

@Ditjedatje most of it is now safe, well for a few hours anyways. radiation is only 50% above normal now. i think D:

[accuratesheep]

It is, yes, but if you have a contamination meter, It's secure enough... they are not life-tired

[toonman81]

how much you think it is in USD for a plane ticket and the tour altogether? and where can you find out more about the trip?

[bakura10]

@toonman81 @toonman81 More information here : chernobylzone(dot)com(dot)ua. I know it's in Russian, I used to use Google Translate to subscribe to the trip :d.

[hydrox554]

@toonman81 type in google: chernobyl trip, first link, should be a site from kievtours or something, the tours start from kiev

[Wesjin]

Man I really hope I get to visit this place someday..one of my fantasy destinations.

[kamandalu]

it's seems that it is a tourist attraction now ;(

[bakura10]

None of us went there to have fun with the Great Wheel. I'm not sure you can call this tourism.

[kamandalu]

that's right but now thre unloading hole busses with people and asking entree fees for it i think!but if they can help other projects with that it's ok!nice pics anyway!

[loribit85]

Pilgrimage is more suitable. Maybe.

[bakura10]

Well, I'm neither ukrainian nor russian, I was even born years after the accident therefore for me it's not pilgrimage.

But you're true, for a lot of russian people that go there, it's pilgrimage.

[Bombargo333]

I heard there gigantic carps.

[defplayryalpfed]

how much is it to go their

[bakura10]

@defplayryalpfed ~ 60 €

[lulem400]

fallout 3

[Dimavery11]

cars, ships, and water are high radioactive

[bakura10]

Oh really ? What a fantastic news !

[Dimavery11]

i know this is nothing new but i think it shoud stand here @ this comment list^^

[twb1003]

call uh dutyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[waffenshroodle]

I wonder what food pantries and Fridges look like with food still in them in pripyat. Abandoned for more than 20 years and who knows what still lies in the city. I would love to know lol.

[austinjd1]

@waffenshroodle radiotactive milk, toxic bread, raidated cookies, radiocactive ham. sounds like it'd be radiated LOL

[kamandalu]

i think most of these things are already removed or eten by animals etc...and there already went so many people in the abandoned city that everything has alreaduy found and checked before!!

[Dryminator]

Damn, military games in Pripyat would be awesome. Although I think it's only(when health is considered) possible after a few to several years, when radiation levels are even lower.

[stefaan10111992]

@dryminator try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. call of prypjat!

[Dryminator]

@stefaan10111992

It is not the same dude! And I think my laptop wouldn't run such a new FPS.

[APontiacof455cubes]

what do u think it would cost to fly to pripyat from the states? do they offer different types of tours? what does a tour encompass and how much does it cost?

[bakura10]

A fly to Pripyat from the states ? Well you have to pay your airplane ticket from States to Ukraine, and then you have to pay the trip in Ukraine. For me it costed around 70$ for the bus, the food in Chernobyl and the visit.

[dilt20]

@bakura10 you ate the food in chernobyl??? wtf

[bakura10]

Of coure ! The trip lasted all the day, we had to eat something :D. Don't be afraid, if I remember well, everything we ate at Chernobyl was not from Chernobyl but from other parts of Ukraine.

[usafpilot29]

There are cafes and other restaurants near the Pripyat checkpoint, you know? Tour guides from tourkiev(dot)com even bring their tourists to eat there.

[bakura10]

@usafpilot29 Really ? I didn't know, I've only seen a small supermarket in Chernobyl, and we've eaten at Chernoyl Interform.

[usafpilot29]

Yes, there are more than one active cafes near the power plant. Not really near, but a handful of checkpoints away.

[thewerdoisme]

so if i go on the tour could i take some gas masks?

[bakura10]

Gas masks ? Nobody had one, but I think you can bring one if you want.

[thewerdoisme]

iv seen some pics inside a school with a huge pile of gas masks are you shure?

[bakura10]

Ha ok, so you want to take some gas mask that ARE in Chernobyl ? Well... I don't think you will be allowed, because everything that lies in Pripyat is still highly radioactive, so taking something from there would be a little dangerous.

In fact, if you respect the rules, you shouldn't touch any object (well, in the video I touch a book haha).

[usafpilot29]

Those are gasmasks used during evacuation, not by visitors who went there.

Also, gas masks are not necessary as the dose of radiation you get at Chernobyl is less than the dose of which you get from x-ray machines.

[mastainventa]

a man ingested one grain of sand from the site and it killed him

[bakura10]

I've eaten at Chernobyl, and well, I'm not dead. At least, not yet :=).

[mastainventa]

he was inside when they were trying to clean it up and got a grain of sand in his mouth

[moey320]

Man you're lucky I would love to go there and see it for myself.

[mastainventa]

cos there not a dumb azz like you D

[bakura10]

It was funny because there was a guy during the trip that was wearing a lot of protections (radiation proof clothing, gloves...). And during all the trip he was like "rrr, this is not practical, let's remove it !". And at the end he was like me and you, without any protection =).

[nzigen31]

they still want to have children

[bakura10]

Don't know yet. I'm a second-year student, the Erasmus program is at the beginning of the fifth year. So, I have to wait 2 years and a half :(.

But my school has contracts with Lund's, Göteborgs (Chalmer), Linköping, Nörrkoping and Uppsala's universities... But there's not Stockholm nor Umea :'(.

[bakura10]

I've always dreamt to live up there in Sweden, so I learnt some words two years ago, but I gave up.

I'm gonna learn Swedish seriously in two years, because I will spend my last school year in Sweden, but for now, I don't practice this language anymore.

[bakura10]

Vad ? Haha I don't understand everything, my Swedish is so broken.

[bakura10]

Jag är inte svensk. Jag är fran Paris i Frankrike.

[czarnaxxx34]

odwazni,ja bym tam w zyciu nie jechala...balabym sie

[bakura10]

Ja =). Det fanns en svensk med en polack som pratat svenska mycket bra !

Excuse my broken Swedish =) !

[sandoval2112]

thats freakin cod4 right there

[Spartan9926]

this is where u snipe the Imran zakhieve huh?

[mescal31]

Thanks for putting this up. I would love to go someday. This is the closest I get for now.

[bakura10]

Thanks for watching !

[ACIDTOTAL]

shit... they even have not started the new sarcofag?

[bakura10]

No. In the video of the sarcophagus I took, you can see a yellow steel object (which cannot be seen in older videos and photos), which was built in december 2006 by a russian company to strengthen the sarcophagus.

Actually, it still looks really fragile. If I remember well, the current sarcophagus' shelf life should have been 20 years... It's 23 years old now !

[Spartan9926]

got question

1.when u go there,did u find any mutants?

2.area they open the place for tourist now?

3.did they clean all the readiation aready?

[bakura10]

So...

1) It's written, just over there. I went there on april 2009. No I didn't find any mutants. The fish in the Pripyat river are really big, but I think they are not mutant, its just that all the tourists give them food, and nobody fish them, of course.

2) Yes the area is open for tourists now.

3) No. Some areas were cleaned. This doesn't mean that it's not dangerous anymore, but in the area that are cleaned have a lower radiation level. But well, I'm not an expert on this topic =).

[TheGuyOnDownStreet]

Isnt there a shitload of radiation there?

[bakura10]

It depends, it varies a lot across the Zone !

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

reminds me of fallout 3.

[TheGamingAdventure]

thats what everyone thinks, however im sure there are a lot of safe areas now that you can walk thorough,

[bpiaufb]

i thought no one was aloud in prypait and chernobyl

[jakesmithsoild25]

I guess the factory still has 10,000 rads an hour

[bakura10]

Inside the sarcophagus it's still very high, you're right =). That's why I didn't go there (and even if I wanted, we are not allowed to go there).

[ccfccrazy]

mutant fish?

[MyWoWadventures]

Did u get any souvenirs for pripyat like some things they might have left behind???

[bakura10]

Ahah of course not. I turned pages of a book in Pripyat's school, and this was enough ;).

Objects are still very radioactive in the city, I think no one will take the risk to take a souvenir of Pripyat ;).

[tinytoes409]

bakura10...thanks for such a great video of Pripyat! Yours is the latest update it seems, along with a guy from Canada that posted from June 2009! Where are you from? I live in the US and have family in Lithuania...not sure I want to experience the adventure...so I get the experience through your great video!! Creepy...but a wonderful video!!!

[bakura10]

Hi tinytoes ! Thank you ! I can't find the video of June 2009 you are talking about, please share the link ;).

I'm from France. It's been a dream to go there since I'm very young, and you should really go there, the experience you feel in real is far more powerful than in video !

Thank you again !

[tinytoes409]

Sorry, look under Chernobyl 2006 the guy posting is Carl Montgomery and he posted his wep site. I also sent you a personal message in your You tube account! You're so young to have such an experience...I'm old enough to be your MOM! Go to Disney World next time!! Ha Ha! Be Safe!!

[bakura10]

Hi,

I didn't receive your personal message in my inbox, so I think you have to send it again.

I have already seen the videos of Carl Montgomery, if I remember well he took a private trip and did it alone.

Ahaha yeah you could me my mom ;). And, hum, already went to Disney World and, really, it's not my taste... Really hate that kind of place !

[tinytoes409]

Hey Kiddo! I think my message was mostly telling you to see the post of Carl Montgomery...but the funny part of my message was that if I planned a trip to Europe I would love to see Italy and your beautiful France...don't speak either language but I'm sure it would be a great experience! I enjoy your video and speaking to you, I'll get my Chernobyl experience from You Tube! I've been going to Disney since it opened, it's a family thing!!! See Ya!

[bakura10]

Kiddo ? Ahah I didn't know this word. France is a beautiful country, there are plenty of things to do and landscapes are very different in each part of the country.

[tinytoes409]

Oh, Kiddo is a slang word in the US for a youth or young person! I have told several people about your visit and they are shocked that you can visit there! You are so young and full of adventure...what did your friends and family think of your choice to visit Chernobyl?

[bakura10]

Well, when I went to Chernobyl, only my friends and my parents knew it. I didn't tell it to my grand-parents and the rest of the family, because they didn't want me to go there.

About my parents, it was at the beginning like "YOU WON'T GO THERE !". But I prepared the trip secretly, and then they didn't have the choice. My mother also ask my doctor, who told her that there was no risk at all, therefore she wasn't worry anymore and they let me go ;).

Why are your friends so shocked ?

[tinytoes409]

Here in America, I work as a Dental Hygienist. People here are soooo afraid of dental x-rays and I to am aware of the dangers of radiation! Dental x-rays are much safer now than before but keeping patients and workers safe is so important. I have told many of my patients about your trip and site...it makes GREAT conversation!!!! The SHOCK is that someone would so young would go to a radioactive site. I have read more about the area and they say that a short visit is safe. Love the video!!!

[bakura10]

Although you can't say that going to Chernobyl is 100% safe, the risks are in fact quite low ! And you know, I'm very afraid of cancers and all that kind of disease, so if the risk would have been too high, of course I would stayed at home ;).

I'm happy if you talk to my trip to your friends ;).

[GordonFreeMANness]

380 V

[bakura10]

Ahaha... unfortunately it doesn't work anymore ^^.

[brom001]

Didn't you had to wear a mask? There is a high radiation level.

[bakura10]

I had a mask, but I felt really uncomfortable with it, so I drop it. Not so many people had a mask, some of them even went with a t-shirt.

The radiation level is not so high as you can imagine ;). I asked my doctor here in France before going there, and he confirmed me that it was not so dangerous considering the small amount of time we were in Pripyat and in front of the sarcophagus.

[pjkill78]

faire une partie d'airsoft ou de paintball en plein de prypiat doit etre "mortel" xd

[bakura10]

Mais clairement impossible :).

[al64inthedark]

Oubli pas les droits d'auteur toi.

[bakura10]

Pourquoi ? J'en ait rien à faire, ce n'est qu'une vidéo... Si les gens ont envie de l'utiliser. En plus on te voit pas, donc t'as même pas de droit à l'image ^^.

[KurosakiOrihime]

Oh my god, you are so lucky I would love to go to Chernobyl.....How did you plan the trip? how much was it?

[bakura10]

I ask people on the Internet that were interested in going to Chernobyl and... we went. It cost, for 4 days, around 550 € (hotel + visit + everything...)