Unique European event in August

From Chennai Event Management Services

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY -- Amateur motor sports enthusiasts and first timers get the chance to explore overlooked but culturally rich regions with the Caucasian Challenge. The itinerary takes participants through an incredible 11 countries in 17 days. Traveling through the Balkans and beyond, organizers have planned their route to include scenic off-the-beaten-path roads and geo-caching challenges.

The Caucasian Challenge is an amateur, drive-anything, minimal assistance, low budget rally, a competition and adventure tour organized by experienced explorers and travel professionals as a way to see areas rarely visited. Anyone can enter the event with all sorts of vehicles regardless their age or condition.

Leaving the capital of Hungary on Aug. 15, participants head South into Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the world’s two youngest republics: Montenegro and Kosovo, Albania, before leaving the Balkans and continue their journey in Greece and Turkey. Crossing the Bosporus Channel they will then navigate the full length of Turkey. Entering Georgia they drive around the highest peaks of Europe in the Caucasus Mountains then lead South to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh before reaching the finish line in Yerevan, Armenia on Aug. 31.

The roads range from eight-lane highways to rough and rocky trails and nights might be spent camping besides a mountain lake, in a romantic mountain guesthouse or a fancy modern city hotel. Participants must rely on their own endurance, ingenuity, teamwork and luck to find their way to the finish line, but history shows there are far more good stories than bad.

The emphasis is on discovery and having a great time instead of setting any land speed records. While parties are not planned for every night en route, spontaneous celebrations are an encouraged way to meet locals interested in checking out what is sure to be a memorable spectacle.

Charity is an important goal of the Caucasian Challenge. Organizers choose a school or orphanage each year in Armenia or Nagorno-Karabakh and participants are urged to collect various in-kind donations to hand over themselves while visiting the institution. Tons of toys, clothes, computers, sport equipments and other goods were delivered in the past years brightening up the daily life of the kids in need.

International teams from various countries have already registered - enjoying the liberal rules - with everything from rusty old station wagons to fancy 4WD cars or motorbikes.