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

 

 

Ouargla - Hassi Messaoud (100km)

(Stage 13.4)

Algeria - driving from Ouargla to Hassi Messaoud arriving on 6.1.2003


Rallye mail

Monday 6th Sunshine and calm air - whoopee!

Off we go after preparing the cars, but the road surface had suffered in the recent storms, flash floods had washed it away completely in places.

Progress was painfully slow on a pot-holed, sticky and in places very slippery track. We managed to get to Hassi Messaoud and once again were forced to take refuge.

Hassi Messaoud, Arabic = blessed well, town, E Algeria.

Formerly a water hole in the Sahara desert, Hassi Messaoud rose to prominence with the discovery of oil in 1954.

Pipelines were built in the 1950s and 60s to carry oil to the port of Bejaïa on the Mediterranean.

In 1979, oil refining expanded greatly. In the early 1980s half of Algeria's total oil production came from the field.

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