{"id":6919,"date":"2020-12-05T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commander1024.de\/wordpress\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:17:47","slug":"one-day-in-pripyat-urban-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commander1024.de\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/one-day-in-pripyat-urban-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"One day in Pripyat – Urban Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The next morning, we woke up in our Pripyat flat with some notable muscle ache. But I was a little bit relieved to hear that this even affected the other guys – who were in far better shape than me. Although I slept like a baby on a jacked up room door, I woke up to the sound of mice chewing on the wood of a cabinet in the room. so we had to „rescue“ our food and water supplies and put them up high in the cabinet. Our guide told us, a single mouse can ruin all the food. <\/p> \n\n\n\n

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View out of the stalker flat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But first our stomachs desired for coffee and breakfast. And thanks to the care pack it was a very tasty breakfast. We had fresh cucumber, sausage, cheese and an absolute fantastic „vegetarian caviar“. That’s a traditional Russian\/Ukrainian eggplant vegetable cream. If you want to try this delicious stuff for yourself, you might be lucky in an international \/ Russian store or make it yourself<\/a>. (I haven’t tried the recipe, yet, but I will and I suspect it will be even better than a bought one.) <\/p> \n\n\n\n

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Ukrainian style breakfast in the stalker flat in Pripyat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pripyat UrbEx Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To get an impression of the city from before the accident I can highly recommend this blog<\/a>. They have hundreds of photos from before, during and after the catastrophe. Most of the reference shots, Felix took with him, were printed from this goldmine. <\/span> <\/p> \n\n\n\n

All Pripyat photos are tagged with GPS position and current radiation levels at the time the photo was taken – measured in my pants‘ pocket (~75 cm height above ground). I described how I did this<\/a> and published the Python script here<\/a>. Although the article is in German, the software is written and documented in English.<\/em> <\/p> \n\n\n\n

Getting up high<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

First we aimed for one of the highest buildings, a 16 story high lookout point. Luckily our legs didn’t already burn (they did). <\/span> <\/p> \n\n\n\n