After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the territory of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Polesye Radiation and Ecological Reserve was established. Today its area is 2100 square kilometers. A place with a unique nature, living absolutely without human intervention. Due to the high level of contamination by radionuclides, this area will never be used.
From 2018, it became possible to visit the reserve with informative goals for its most interesting places. The tour passes through the territory of the Khoiniki and Bragin districts. You can visit the reserve with a Program of one-day excursion or a two-day tour. You will learn about the consequences of the Chernobyl accident for Belarus, the flora and fauna of the reserve, walk through abandoned villages and villages, where time stopped in 1986, after the announcement of the evacuation.
You can visit the reserve with planing group tours, or with an individual program, choosing a travel date convenient for you. Departure from Gomel , the closest regional center to the exclusion zone, when planning a trip, you can spend time exploring our beautiful and modern city. Or, come directly to Khoiniki, or to the Babchin checkpoint before the excursion.
If you want to visit group tour, and make it fast, you can go from Lithuania, Vilnius. For it write in Instagram to My Lithuanian pertner,and to go by car from Vilnius!
For foreing guests of Belarus I suppose individual tours to our zone, for more active and wide program. The cost of individual tours is calculated depending on the duration and number of visitors, for this contact the Guide.Please reserve a place at least 7-10 working days before the trip, to prepare all permissins, so plan your trip in advance. At the case if you visiting Belarus, and have no oppotunity to be here more than 7-10 days, you can choose visiting Chernobyl Evacuation zone, it also interest!
