Chernobyl & Indonesia: The Newest Members of the "Grief Tourism" Club

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By Jennifer Welsh
Dec 17, 2010 10:59 PMNov 20, 2019 3:05 AM

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Do you enjoy looking at burnt villages and/or deserted cities? How about being exposed to radiation? If that's your thing, you are in luck with new "grief tourism" vacation packages being offered in Indonesia (site of a horrifying volcano) and the Ukraine (home to Chernobyl). As Scientific American explains:

"Grief tourism," however ghoulish it might seem, is far from uncommon. Similar trends were seen in Haiti, devastated by a powerful earthquake in January, as well as in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

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