Event Info 賽事簡介

• 15% VIP savings off entry fee if you have entered any 3 day overseas Action Asia Events in 2017 & 2018 (Lijiang/Mongolia/Nepal including upcoming Nepal 2018 at the time of entry. Please use this VIP code: 2018KAZAKHSTAN15VIP when you register online (key in the code before you check out).
• *HKD 1000 Action X store vouchers per person if you register between Aug 1 - Aug 31, 2018.

  

Event Name:	KAZAKHSTAN Action Asia Ultra Marathon 3 day stage
Date:	Sept 1 - Sept 3, 2018
Location:	Kazakhstan
Distance:	60km, 100km
Category:	Trail Running and Hiking Options

For runners & hikers looking for a peace of mind - Follow the steppes in the next Kazakhstan Action Asia 3 day Ultra Marathon featuring red sand, green mountain steppes and small rolling hills overlooking the yurt camp with the 4000m+ peaks in the distance. www.actionasiaevents.com 

Room for 9 more in 2018 edition as almost full. Will allow more in 2019.

 

Accommodation:
Please email payment@actionasiaevents.com with your preferred person(s) who you would like to share the official Kazakhstan hotel in Almaty with if you haven’t. Hotel accommodation will be 2 per room. Special arrangements can be made on rooms for Double beds. Official hotel: Shera Park Inn, Almaty, Kazakhstan

 

ITINERARY 

Friday, Aug 31:

• Transportation from Almaty (meet at the offcial hotel at 1:15pm and bus departure at 1:30pm to airport to pick up participants from the group flight). Almaty airport (Around 2:30pm - 3pm) direct to race venue location (approximately 3 hour drive)
• Please email Payment@actionasiaevents.com your flight itinerary on or before Aug 17, for us to arrange airport pick up on Aug 31 for you. If arriving day earlier it will be the responsibility of the participant to take a taxi to their hotel and meet at official hotel Aug 31 to get the free bus to the race venue.
• Dinner provided at the race venue
• Accommodation in traditional Kazak yurts with carpet
• 7 pm - Race briefing for day 1 course with maps giving out

Saturday, Sept 1:

• 6 am – Breakfast starts in the main kitchen of the yurt camp (Kazak style breakfast with naan bread / coffee / milk tea
• 7am – Race start (both 60km & 100km category)
• 12-4 pm – Lunch served in afternoon at yurt camp
• 6 pm – 7 pm – Dinner served at yurt camp
• 7 pm - Race briefing for day 2 course with maps giving out and results of day 1

Sunday, Sept 2:

• 6 am – Breakfast starts in the main kitchen of the yurt camp (Kazak style breakfast with naan bread / coffee / milk tea
• 7am – Race start (both 60km & 100km category)
• 12-4 pm – Lunch served in afternoon at yurt camp
• 6 pm – 7 pm – Dinner served at yurt camp
• 7 pm - Race briefing for day 3 course with maps giving out and results of day 2

Monday, Sept 3:

• 6 am – Breakfast starts in the main kitchen of the yurt camp (Kazak style breakfast with naan bread / coffee / milk tea
• 7am – Race start (both 60km & 100km category)
• 11 am – Lunch served in afternoon at yurt camp
• 12 noon – Buses leave to official Hotel in Kazakhstan (option to swing by airport & drop anyone off on way around 3-4pm) then continue to Official Hotel drop off.
• 4 pm – Arrive back in Almaty Kazakhstan at the official hotel
• 6:30 pm – BUFFET DINNER AT Kazakhstan style RESTAURANT
• 7:30 pm – Awards ceremony begins with some photos displayed

**Note there is a direct flight leaving midnight Almaty back to Hong Kong and special buses will be arranged for those on this flight. For the remaining participants, buses will be arranged at different times on Tuesday, Sept 4

Tuesday, Sept 4

• buses will be arranged at different times on Tuesday, Sept 4. Please email us latest Aug 24th with your flight schedule otherwise no guarantee we will have room on the bus. Note taxi easy to arrange.

 

What's included in the entry:

• Bus transportation from Almaty official hotel or airport to start race venue location Friday August 31 (3 hr drive).
• (PLAN IS TO STAY AT SAME YURT CAMP LOCATION FOR 3 DAYS making it easy on you so you can relax).
• Accommodation for Friday Aug 31, Saturday Sept 1, Sunday Sept 2 in Kazak desert camp and Monday Sept 3 in official Almaty Hotel.
• Transportation from finish to the official hotel in Almaty Monday Sept 3
• Transportation from the official hotel in Almaty to awards dinner Monday Sept 3
• Dinner Aug 31, Breakfast, lunch, dinner Sept 1, Breakfast, lunch, dinner Sept 2 and breakfast and lunch Sept 3 at Kazak camp.
• Breakfast in Almaty Tuesday Sept 4 at the official hotel in Almaty
• Bus transportation from Kazakhstan official hotel to Almaty airport night of Sept 3 (if catching HK midnight flight) or Sept 4
• Racing number, pins & souvenir race shirt provided
• Water on the race course (checkpoint every 10km estimate) with fruit and water at finish line each day.
• Medical, Security and staff support with event 3rd party insurance
• Finishers survivor medal

 

What's not included:

• Room space for friends and family as they must pay just like participants even if coming just to volunteer or cheer you on.
• Optional extra nights accommodation – If you are coming from Hong Kong, the official travel agency can give you quotations.
• Visa & permits for Kazakhstan (please check in your own country to see if you need).
• Food if stopping on bus at the local shop - Cash in the local currency). Note nothing to purchase at camp except coke, beer. So load up on your junk food before arriving.
• Personal insurance- Family, friends, volunteers others who want to come with you - they are treated like a participant in the race and still have to pay the full fee (actually in a way they cost us more as we have to transport them around also)
• Return flight tickets to Almaty, Kazakhstan.

 

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Recommended flight from Hong Kong

JSC Air Astana

• KC930 (FRI)    HKG / ALA   0945/1440
• KC929 (TUE)   ALA / HKG   0015/0810

 

Official hotel

Shera Park Inn

Address: 49 KHADZHI MUKAN STREET, ALMATY, REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Tel: +7 727 313 8111

 

Insurance - The event has its own public liability insurance coverage, but we recommend that all participants get their own personal accident coverage to cover any personal accidents.

 

Medical - As this event involves going into the mountains we recommend all participants to have gone to a medical checkup before the event to make sure you are physically fit enough to handle this kind of physical challenge.

 

Finisher medal