Chernobyl Travelogue and Photo Essay

Came across this site and its truly amazing www.ninja-assassin.com...

Elena takes her Kawasaki Ninja and her digicam on a post apocalyptic ride through the ghost town that is Chernobyl. A slice of Soviet life (and death) preserved in time.

There are a couple of existing ATS threads on this subject:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...

...and the original story turned out to be less than honest.

Museum of Hoaxes
A month or two ago a woman named Elena posted a travelogue on the web about her solitary motorcycle ride through the deserted area around Chernobyl. With all the eerie pictures she took of the abandoned, irradiated 'ghost town,' her travelogue quickly became one of the most linked-to sites on the net. Now there are accusations that her travelogue wasn't completely honest. Apparently she didn't go around alone on a motorcycle. She went in a car with her husband and a friend. Elena defends herself, admitting that much of her story was 'more poetry' than reality, but noting that most of it was still reality. I'm inclined to side with her. The pictures of Chernobyl, and what it's become, were real. How much does it really matter that she made them more interesting by wrapping them in a tale about a solitary motorcycle ride?

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As such, I'm going to close this thread up, but feel free to add comments or questions to the other threads.