0.01 Qualifying
0.02 Scrutineering
0.03 Spec Check
0.04 Power Options
0.05 Body Checks
0.06 Checker Check
0.07 Scrutiny Fin
0.08 Salt Flats Trials
0.09 25 Hour race prep
0.10 Marshalling
0.11 25hr Race Start
0.12 Overview
0.13 Darkness
0.14 Mid-Race
0.15 25hrs end
0.16 London
0.17 Routing
Marrakech Express
1.0 Normandy
2.0 Evreux
2.1 Bye Bayeux
2.2 Lunch stop
2.3 2 Wheel Test
2.4 Paris
3.0 Lyon
4.0 MonteCarlo
4.1 MonteCarlo Results
5.0 Monarco
6.0 Marseille
7.0 Barcelona
8.0 Algeciras
9.0 Marrakech
9.1 Xmas
10 Igli
 Results
Sahara Storms
11 Timimoun
12 El Homr
13.1 El Golea
13.2 Ghardaia
13.3 Ouargla
13.4 Hassi Messaoud
13.5 El Borma
13.5 Yafran
14 Tripoli
15 Ajdabiya
16 Alexandria
Results
Nile & Rift Valley
17 Sohag
18 Wadi Halfa
19 Atbara
20 Rabak
21 Juba 
22 Kampala
23 Nairobi
Results
African Safari
24 Ngorogoro Crater
25 Kilimanjaro
26 Eyes for East Africa
27 Mafinga
28 Lilongwe
29 Lusaka
Results
Falls to the Ocean
30 Livingstone
31 Francis Town
32 Gabarone
33 Vryburg
34 Kimberley
35 Beaufort West
36 Cape Town
Results
Final Results


 

Ghardaia - Ouargla (225km)

(Stage 13.3)

Algeria - driving from Ghardaia south of the Atlas Mountains to Ouargla arriving on 4.1.03


Rallye mail

Saturday 4th and things seemed to be getting better, then it started to rain. Luckily we had got to Ouargla and were able to take shelter.

Rain is hardly the word.

Torrential downpour was more like it.

When it rains here it really rains, the dry wadis become flowing rivers in a matter on minutes. We were told that cars had been washed away in flash floods, drivers had drowned, were trapped in their cars in gullies while they waited for the storm to clear and the story wasn't hard to believe.

We stayed over on Sunday - giving in to the storm that was more than we were used to and deserved respect.

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