Vilcha

We are now located at a railway station in Vilcha. The last passenger train went through this station some 18 years ago. Since then only freight trains from the nuclear plant rumble through here.

Vilcha was the forth biggest city in the Chernobyl area. It is located on the border between Ukraine and Belorussia. The places where radiation is higher than in surrounding areas are called hotspots. Here, the level of radioactive isotopes of cesium measured 60 curie/ square km indicates that we've found a hotspot. The town is radioactive and no one has lived here since 1986.

Here is my Ninja, looking at the windows of some empty school.

When you travel through deserted Vilcha at night, the beam of your motorbike is the only illumination to be seen in the whole town. It goes through the frameless doors and windows like an x-ray. At night you can see more then you can during the day.