Doing the Dakar for Dan and Daniel!!!

To be honest this post might bore everyone else but we made it especially for Dan and Daniel!! And there wont be too many words because obviously neither of us know as much as they do about things with large engines and shiny pieces of metal!! I’ll just say that when passing through Salta we had the chance to see the Dakar Rally up close and personal…in fact when we were walking back to the campsite ON the track we nearly got taken out by the first 4x4 that came flying around a corner!! Hopefully we’ve got some good pics of the bikes, quads and 4x4’s for the two of you as that’s who we were taking them for…obviously I have no interest in so many pictures of cars!!!!! Enjoy :o) 

The bikes and quads came first...we found a spot near a small river which alot of locals seemed to be gathering at so parked ourselves there to watch them come through the water!!

The bikes were pretty fast and one came flying into the crowd when he took the corner too fast but the quads were pretty slow going through the water...thats about as technical as my description gets!!

The first car we met was as we walked back from the river to the camp!! We were a bit bored as the gap between the bikes was pretty big and it was getting really hot - the camp site had a bar where you could watch the rally go past so 8 of us decided we would start walking back!! We came round one corner that didnt have a grass verge to jump on and the first 4x4 nearly took us out!! The noise of it was unreal and it was flying compared to the bikes and quads and was obviously taking up way more of the road!!! We just hugged the bank at the side of the road until it went pass and then quickly got ourselves up the bank!!  

Ive got a few more pics and some videos but it will take too long to upload them so i'll show you them when I get home!!!!