Norbert

what it’s like to visit Chernobyl and on this post, I’ll share that experience with you as well as all the tips you need to plan your trip to Ukraine and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, at 1:23:40 am when the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a rushed safety test to help develop a safe backup procedure during an electrical power outage. Today it is possible to visit both of Chernobyl Exclusion Zones as the radiation levels have gone down substantially, but still, many parts of the 10km zone are highly contaminated with elevated radiation. There’s one cafeteria in the zone, located near the power plant, and it’s mainly there for the plant workers and tourists nowadays.

I’ve had a fascination with this unusual fiery crater for years, and now I’m finally able to visit it on this Intrepid Travel trip. Things to Know About Turkmenistan and How to Visit the Gates of Hell Turkmenistan, while safe, is not an easy country to travel. You need a tour guide to get a visa for Turkmenistan (and the gas craters)⠀ Given that Turkmenistan has an official exchange rate and a black market rate, I recommend not withdrawing money there.

For that reason, during my recent trip through all of Central Asia, I decided to travel to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan with Intrepid Travel’s Tashkent to Ashgabat tour. On this Intrepid Travel review, I’ll share with you everything you need to know about this tour as well as my experience, the highs and lows of the trip, and some extra details you should know about these two countries. But, while there I realized that this Tashkent to Ashgabat tour is just a leg of a much bigger tour that goes from China to Turkmenistan, so they covered Tashkent before I joined the tour. This was quite a comprehensive Intrepid Travel review, more specific to this trip in Uzbekistan and Turkmenitan, but everything I wrote above about the company applies to pretty much every trip they offer.

It may be right in the middle of Canada, but this city does its best to make the most out of its geographically unique and historically important location – right at the intersection of the Assiniboine and Red rivers. In my opinion, the best time to visit Winnipeg is during the summer when it is warm and the weather is perfect to do all kinds of outdoor activities like canoeing, hiking, camping in its many provincial parks – like the popular Whiteshell Provincial Park which is less than two hours away from the city. From the park, you’ll also see not only the iconic structure that is the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, but also the Esplanade Riel, one of the most recognized symbols of the city. Climb to the top of the Forks Market glass tower to get a panoramic view of the city, sit inside the Oodena Celebration Circle, take a boat tour to see it all from a different perspective, or just sit outside on the park