Seyon Asia Limited

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    Event Overview:

    Guilin is famous worldwide for its magnificent scenery and is one of China's most popular tourist destinations. The standard tourist trip, however, involves sitting on boats or buses and being a spectator as the countryside rolls by.

    Instead, Challenge participants will run, bike, raft, clamber through caves, and abseil off cliffs through and in some of the world's most stunning scenery and remote villages as part of a multi-sport adventure race weekend.


    Why the Protrek Guilin Weekend Challenge:

    Guilin is a uniquely beautiful location in the world, yet no adventure races have been organized there to date. Guilin also has the advantage of convenient location and good infrastructure. It possesses a modern, international airport and by plane is just over one hour flight from Hong Kong. There are also direct flights to Guilin from Japan, Macau and several southeast Asian cities. Guilin offers international quality accommodation and easy access to karst limestone cliffs, rural villages and clear streams.

    The Protrek Guilin Weekend Challenge is a 2-day adventure race. The first day, Saturday, March 9th, 2002 will be the harder day, with the first teams expected to finish in approximately 5 hours. Tired competitors will have to rally on Sunday the 10th for a shorter, but still strenuous adventure challenge of approximately 4 hours for the first teams. Cumulative time for the 2 days will be used to determine the winners. The race format is designed to allow participants time to relax, recover and enjoy the local ambiance in addition to competing.


    Additional Race Information:

    • Regular updates for participants including full race rules, optional training courses, course route updates and suggested kit lists will appear on our main page.

    • We welcome Protrek Co. Ltd. as the title sponsor of the Protrek Guilin Weekend Challenge. Registered participants in the Challenge will be offered substantial savings on many top quality items that would be useful during the event and for everyday adventures. Protrek will also provide prizes to the event winners in each of four categories: first all male team, first all female team, first mixed team, and first team with combined age over 100. Refer to their website http://www.protrek.com.hk for product catalogue and store locations.

    • For those not wishing to bring their mountain bike to China, we can arrange for the rental of high quality Bohdisattva Mountain Bikes, bike helmets, etc. (http://www.bohdi.com.cn). Please let the organizer know if you wish to arrange bike rental: keith@seyonasia.com