Chernobyl. It’s the Latest Word in Adventure Travel.
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.13.05 | 10:15 PM ET
The flora and fauna in an area the size of Rhode Island are still radioactive, and the soil is still contaminated five inches deep, but that’s not keeping tourists from visiting the site of the world’s largest nuclear disaster. We think they’re a bit nuts. However, according to Mary Mycio’s story this weekend in the Los Angeles Times, some visitors think they’ve hit on the next great form of adventure travel. “The very knowledge of the buzzing background of radiation imbues even the prosaic act of walking down the street with an aura of excitement,” she writes. “It isn’t the same adrenalin punch as bungee jumping in the Andes, but it is a palpable sensation—like being surrounded by ghosts.” The Times’ editors, by the way, top this piece with a hall-of-fame headline: “Chernobyl Gets Glowing Reviews.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
