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CAUCASIAN CHALLENGE 2011
CMG Online News (Canadian Motorcycle Magazine)
http://cmgonline.com/content/view/3248/51/
Jan 27 2011
You'll travel through former and current areas of conflict. Sounds
smashing.
Feeling adventurous? Want to travel across 11 countries and former,
as well as existing conflict zones? Then sign up today for the 2011
Caucasian Challenge (relating to Caucasus region of Asia, not white
folks).
Touted as an "amateur, drive-anything, minimal assistance, low budget
rally" (hmm, except for the 'drive anything' clause it sounds like
the Mad Bastard rally) the Caucasian Challenge is a competition
and adventure tour lasting 17 days and traversing some of the most
culturally diverse areas of this planet.
The rally will leave Budapest, Hungary on August 15 and head across
Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania. It will
then leave the Balkans and cross Greece and Turkey before entering
Georgia and the Caucasus Mountains.
But the rally doesn't end there, as competitors will then cross
into Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh before heading back to
Armenia, where it wraps up in the country's capital, Yerevan.
You'll be on your own when it comes to food and lodging (tents seem
to be the preferred accommodations) and competitors are encouraged
to collect donations and hand them over to a yet-to-be determined
school or orphanage in Armenia or Nagorno-Karabakh.
The rally is open to all vehicles, including motorcycles, though only
three brave motorcyclists have entered the rally since its inception
in 2008.
From: A. Papazian
CMG Online News (Canadian Motorcycle Magazine)
http://cmgonline.com/content/view/3248/51/
Jan 27 2011
You'll travel through former and current areas of conflict. Sounds
smashing.
Feeling adventurous? Want to travel across 11 countries and former,
as well as existing conflict zones? Then sign up today for the 2011
Caucasian Challenge (relating to Caucasus region of Asia, not white
folks).
Touted as an "amateur, drive-anything, minimal assistance, low budget
rally" (hmm, except for the 'drive anything' clause it sounds like
the Mad Bastard rally) the Caucasian Challenge is a competition
and adventure tour lasting 17 days and traversing some of the most
culturally diverse areas of this planet.
The rally will leave Budapest, Hungary on August 15 and head across
Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania. It will
then leave the Balkans and cross Greece and Turkey before entering
Georgia and the Caucasus Mountains.
But the rally doesn't end there, as competitors will then cross
into Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh before heading back to
Armenia, where it wraps up in the country's capital, Yerevan.
You'll be on your own when it comes to food and lodging (tents seem
to be the preferred accommodations) and competitors are encouraged
to collect donations and hand them over to a yet-to-be determined
school or orphanage in Armenia or Nagorno-Karabakh.
The rally is open to all vehicles, including motorcycles, though only
three brave motorcyclists have entered the rally since its inception
in 2008.
From: A. Papazian