Monday, February 9, 2009

Contact details for registration

Please contact Jiten and he will help you with the registration, please ask him to give you the forms for registration for Indian residents (excl. -travel and stay option), It should cost around Rs.10k (Pl. note its applicable for Indian resident citizens only). You will not find this option on the official website. This purely is an effort by the adventure marathon organisers to encourage Indians to participate in the marathon (a special gesture indeed).

Should budget not be a constraint, you could take their complete package, which includes travel and stay from Delhi (starting at USD 2600 per person) or visit http://www.great-tibetan-marathon.com/prices.aspx

Attention: Nazir Rah (Director International sales GTM)
or Jiten Suchede (Project Manager GTM)

Address: 26/27 LGF, Charmwood Plaza
Near Suraj Kund, Eros Garden,
Charmwood Village,
Faridabad – 121 009, India

Ph. no: +91. (0) 129.4117492/93
Fax: +91. (0) 129.4117491

Email: gtm@mountainadventuresindia.com
Web: www.mountainindia.com

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Budget for participating in Great Tibetan Marathon

Budget Rs.30-35k is the bare minimum, if you include the race fees!

Registration fees were 8K (2 years back) so budget 10k, to factor in inflation! (Pl. note this is a special rate for Indian resident citizens, the regular rate is about 40K)

Bom-Del - Bom - 6.5K (book now and you will get full service airlines)
Del-Man - 1k (Bus)
Man-leh - 1-1.5k (Bus or four wheel drive taxi)
Manali stay - 0.5k (overnight stop over at a yatri nivas)
Leh stay - twin sharing about .3k x 10days - 3k (but budget for .5k per day) - ref. link below or use travel sites to find deals.
Leh/manali food - 0.5k per day x 10 - 5k
All terrain bike trip Khardungla to leh - 1k (downhill)
visit to lake - 1k (in a group)
Nubra valley (in the group) - 1.5k (trek will cost you a lot more, the hotel will be able to organise it)
Manali - Srinagar - 1k (bus)
Trek in manali - 1k
Shopping - 1-2k (t shirts & shopping at monastery)
Srinagar - Delhi - 4k (Air)

Above is the bare minimum cost. let me know if anything has been missed out.

My Place of stay was silverline Inn (can't find their number, pl. check
online, i will also look for it).
http://greattibetanmarathon.blogspot.com/2007/08/room-with-view-in-leh.html

Must visit desert rain cafe
http://greattibetanmarathon.blogspot.com/2007/08/desert-rain-cafe-leh.html

scroll from bottom to top on the blog..to view pics and other details from the adventure marathon.