Vietnam Jungle Marathon

70km This is a challenging ultra-trail Marathon with plenty of climbs and descents interspersed with runnable flatter sections. A lot of our runners name this as their favourite course, not only for its beauty, but for its mix of terrain, providing good sections of trail running on the flats and the downs, alongside the more challenging uphill sections. The course takes runners through all of the landscapes that the Nature Reserve has to offer. The race begins in beautiful Leo village with a loop around the ethnic minority houses here. After some trail climbing you will enjoy some awesome, runnable downhill single-track sections bringing you to a stunning valley with mountains all around. You will pass through more small minority villages bringing you to a feature unique to our race: a bridge we create just for our runners, using a series of big, bamboo rafts. 50 km Our 50km offers an ultra distance route of extreme beauty. The start area is in beautiful Ban Leo. Runners will first enjoy a loop around the ethnic minority houses here, before heading into great single track trail. A short jungle section will then lead you to another great descent down to the broad valley dotted with villages. Once down in the valley floor you will run among paddies and on mixed, runnable paths with amazing views all around. 25 km The start area is in beautiful Ban Don. Runners will first enjoy a loop around the ethnic minority houses here, before heading onto single track trail down into a valley where golden rice fields are surrounded by mountains. You will then take a trail north, deeper into the Nature Reserve on a section with lots of runnable trails and stunning views. This section is exclusive to 25k runners only. 10 km The VJM 12km is perfect for newer trail runners. You will see many of the beautiful landscapes of the famously stunning Vietnam Jungle Marathon trails, but you will not see the famously hard VJM climbs! You will run during rice harvest season so the fields will be alive with activity and full of golden rice.