Details
What is this all about?
This is an expedition style adventure that takes you through mostly unknown yet tumultuous regions you may have only heard about on the world news. You will journey through Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia. The finish line is in Yerevan, the magnificent capital of Armenia. 
More exciting than going to a museum, the route takes you straight into the heart of the former war (or conflict) zones of Bosnia, Kosovo, Kurdistan and Karabah. But make no mistake: this is not tourism this is a discovery, a revelation. When we enter these places you won’t be touring monuments in a motorcade, you’ll be talking with locals and contributing to grassroots education and health charities.
What is the concept?
The Caucasian Challenge is a minimal assistance motor rally. Forget those ideas about specialized racing vehicles. 
Our idea of a tricked out and dependable race vehicle is an old Soviet Lada with fuzzy dice. And a spare tire. Anything you want to race in from cars to trucks or mopeds is okay with us. Most vehicles will get into a pickle at some point and if you're surrounded by guys riding carts to the market your computerized ride might not be easily serviceable. We like simple cheap cars that are easy and sorta fast to fix so you get all the adventure of making friends in strange places without ending your race.
Minimal assistance means that there are no support vehicles or a cadre of professionals waiting for you at checkpoints. We scout the route in advance, prepare a detailed list of emergency and "comfort" resources but once you're on the road you must entirely depend on your own skills, endurance, luck and ingenuity to get you to the finish line in one piece. There's only a small medical team traveling with us but don't expect plastic surgery. Remember: this is not a Sunday joy ride to the neighboring hill station! It's going to be long, tough, heavy and sweaty - but it's worth all the efforts.
Base hotels (or rather camps) are established for each night. However there might not be hotels en route big enough to handle everyone. They're more like party and informational centers. Like everything else in the Caucasian Challenge there are a zillion ways to reach each goal along the way and only you and your team decide what's the best or most fun way to do it. Besides if everyone did the same thing what would you talk about at all the nightly parties?
Why are we doing this?
We go outside the usual vacation spots and leave the safety of our normal lives behind to do what all great explorers have done: discover. It doesn’t particularly matter what we’re discovering, whether it’s a new culture, cuisine, personal revelation or just what the toilets look like in a new country. But discovering new things, meeting new people and being alive in completely unexpected ways is the thing that drives us to make it through long work weeks (or months) with a sparkle in our eye. We know how liberating and intense a journey like this can be.
Perhaps, like us you’ve already caught the bug.
