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How Chernobyl and Pripyat can impress their guests

How Chernobyl and Pripyat can impress their guests

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The Chernobyl exclusion zone, abandoned by people a few decades ago because of the terrible catastrophe, is considered as a dead zone. And although there are no five-star hotels, developed infrastructure and restaurants, which attracts ordinary tourists the most, every year, this place attracts more and more people, who seek extraordinary destinations. What is the motivation of those tourists, who want to experience the atmosphere of a place that caused suffering for hundreds of thousands of people? Some have the desire to feel unique and extreme emotions, some have a goal to learn more about those events, to see the nuclear power plant with their own eyes or to walk through empty streets and buildings. Secret objects are not left without attention either. An official Chernobyl tour is...