The Dust Challenge
This takes place once a year in August. The idea is you drive your as-crap-as-possible car all the way to the Baltic states, and use them to get around the countryside on mostly gravel roads.
Or if you don't have your own vehicle you can outcrap any other team by flying in to Riga and renting from us one of our 1970's classic Lada!
Yes, we will be avoiding big motorways and overcrowded places! Instead of that our road book will take you to abandoned villages, empty ex-Soviet army bases and long beaches. All this despite on corrugated, ill-mantained twisted country gravel roads.
Typical Itinerary:
| 14th August | England, Dover, Through Benelux, bit of Germany, into Denmark, 600 miles. |
| 15th August | Sweden, to Stockholm, and to ferry going to Tallinn, 600 miles. |
| 16th August | Short sightseeing in Tallinn, off towards Haapsalu, 200 km. |
| 17th August | Haapsalu - ferry to Hiiumaa, the second bigger island of Estonia, 200 km. |
| 18th August | Hiiumaa to Saaremaa, biggest island of Estonia, 260 km. |
| 19th August | Kuresaare to Parnu, possible attempt to use ice road to Kihnu. |
| 20th August | Parnu to Valga, 200 km. |
| 21st August | Valga to Cesis, 300 km. |
| 22nd August | Cesis to Riga, 110 km, Flying home from Riga airport. |
Food and drinks:
Breakfast (when in the hotels) will be included in accomodation. For lunch you will have some recomemndations in the Roadbook. Cost of meals is additional expense. It will average to around 8 euros per meal, and beer up to 2 euros.
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