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Don’t leave home without Travel Tramp’s Top Things To Do In Kiev! From the crazy to the dark, here are the most insane and awesome things to do in the capital of Ukraine! Ukraine is a country that’s technically at war. There’s conflict on the borders and separatism in Crimea. Yet Kiev is still a safe city to visit. I went …
This Travel Tramp guide will show you how to travel from Chisinau to Kiev. I travelled from Chisinau, Moldova to Kiev, Ukraine, a long journey and one made all the more longer by the ridiculous number of border checks. Here’s my guide on how to travel from Chisinau to Kiev, on the long over land route. Just the way travel …
War and Peace in Ukraine. Is Kiev Safe To Travel To? This was a question I pondered furiously over in Moldova when deciding where in Eastern Europe I should travel to next, is Kieva safe to travel to? I could go back to Romania, but that was the way I’d just come from. Or I could risk it all and …
“Care! Radiation!” The sign warned that I was entering the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. There was no turning back now. My documents were checked, and the armed guards waved us across the security line, straight into the fallout area. The Chernobyl disaster occurred on 26th April 1986, in the Ukrainian Socialist Republic- then part of the Soviet Union- when testing at …
In 1986 REACTOR NUMBER 4 exploded. Residents were forced out of their homes, and given only hours to collect all they could carry. They believed that they would be home again soon, but almost 3 decades later, the towns and villages of the Chernobyl exclusion zone are still deserted. Devoid of all human life, radiation has turned this land into …
