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When we hear the name “Land Rover”, we instantly think about adventure and the British carmaker has recently offered us another example that this is a good thing to do. The company has held the Journey of Discovery, and expedition that included, among others, a stop at the infamous nuclear disaster site of Cernobyl, Ukraine.
The expedition set off from Milan and then traveled through Salzburg, Vienna, Budapest, L'Viv and Kiev, aiming to get to Beijing. However, the stop we’re interested in came after Kiev, when the team became the first group of private vehicles to be allowed to visit the deserted site.
The worst nuclear accident in history left the town of Pripyat, which had a population of 50,000 people, to become a wasteland and now, 26 years after it happened, the team was able to take photos of everything. The expedition even made a stop at Reactor No. 4 (the one that exploded on April 26, 1986), which is now covered in concrete and metal.
Let’s here it in the words of the team: “ Ascending the hotel's steps to the top floor ("the lift is out of order because we didn't pay last month's electricity bill," our guide jokes) is like walking the set of a horror movie, except here the horror is very real. As such, looking from the hotel's once grand roof terrace, the ghost town image disappears. From a distance the buildings below still look slightly rundown, but the overall impression is little different from other poor towns in rural Russia.”
“Here [at the reactor] a guide explains how plans are in place for a better cover, or sarcophagus, to be built to help bring this dreadful chapter in history to some sort of a close. The trouble is, this is the same story that has been coming from here for over ten years - all that seems to change is the deadline which keeps extending, seemingly inexorably, into the future.”
The worst nuclear accident in history left the town of Pripyat, which had a population of 50,000 people, to become a wasteland and now, 26 years after it happened, the team was able to take photos of everything. The expedition even made a stop at Reactor No. 4 (the one that exploded on April 26, 1986), which is now covered in concrete and metal.
Let’s here it in the words of the team: “ Ascending the hotel's steps to the top floor ("the lift is out of order because we didn't pay last month's electricity bill," our guide jokes) is like walking the set of a horror movie, except here the horror is very real. As such, looking from the hotel's once grand roof terrace, the ghost town image disappears. From a distance the buildings below still look slightly rundown, but the overall impression is little different from other poor towns in rural Russia.”
“Here [at the reactor] a guide explains how plans are in place for a better cover, or sarcophagus, to be built to help bring this dreadful chapter in history to some sort of a close. The trouble is, this is the same story that has been coming from here for over ten years - all that seems to change is the deadline which keeps extending, seemingly inexorably, into the future.”
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