New Eco-Tourism

So eco-tourists can visit places like Xcaret or do any number of other eco-tourist travel activities in places all around the world but I read of an opportunity today that I think is a little more unique.

I read an article about how tours will begin to be offered to visit the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine beginning in 2011. This is something that is unique in that it deals with a number of environmental issues as well as telling the story of the disaster and the fallout from the nuclear accident that occurred in April 1986. The tours will enter the 30-mile exclusion area surrounding the plant on the visit, this highly contaminated area has been closed to everyone except workers at the plant since shortly after the accident when resettlement of survivors and those living in the area occurred. A picture of the sarcophagus covering the damaged reacrot is below.