My Ridealong in a 9-Day All-Women's Extreme Truck Race in the Moroccan Desert - Yahoo Travel
At team at the Gazelles Rally, Xaviere Zimmerman and Justine Saupin of France, canvassing the Chegaga dunes during a marathon leg. (All photos courtesy Gazelles Rally). I’m standing atop the Erg Chigaga dunes, Morocco’s largest, watching a succession of Isuzu D-Max pickup trucks swoosh by. Each vehicle — more than 4,000 pounds of heavy machinery — guns it while teetering atop the peaks of fine-grain sand. We may as well be on the moon, as remote as we are, in one of the most desolate parts of the country about six miles from the Algerian border. This one year ago on the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles, also known as the Gazelles Rally, the world’s largest all-female motor sporting competition. This year’s rally started March 20 and runs until April 4. Navigator Rhonda Cahill of Team X Elles taking a heading during a sandstorm in the final leg. The brainchild of the French entrepreneur Dominique Serra, the 25-year-old rally is a European tradition that more and more drivers, from the United States and the rest of the world, are discovering. The Gazelles Rally, much like the Dakar Rally, which is considered the world’s toughest and most prestigious off-road rally and has been. Source: www.yahoo.com
