biugueits
Advanced Member
Let's start at the end... 
First I would like to talk a bit about the last leg we did, was really out of the "script", as we decided last minute touch up Faiambalá and monitor the stage of the Dakar that was passing by ... was pure improvisation.
We were breakfast at the hotel in Tafi del Valle, missing two days to reach the border of Brazil and back home, when began airing on TV on FOX SPORT images of Dakar and the news heading to Fiambalá .. . Camille and I looked and it was when it began broadcasting images of FOX SPORT Dakar and the news heading to Fiambalá: GO!
We finished breakfast, grab bags and more and we went all along the route ...
We arrived at Fiambalá, (400 Kms peak) in mid-afternoon of that day, after going through the stretches of asphalt and gravel from the RN40, through beautiful landscapes and picturesque villages as well.
The city was a veritable "confusion", as the population of just over 2,000 residents were not prepared to receive the event size and a large number of tourists from all over Argentina and the world. The small town became a veritable Tower of Babel, with people of all sorts, talking about all kinds of language, cars and motorcycles with enrollments of any party.
These were people walking the sidewalks filled, trucks Rally organization all over, competitors mixed retracements llegavan ordinary cars, the only hotel in town full of people (there were people who rent the homes of local for the night on the sofa and chairs) and the only station in the city lined up, full of cars almost out of fuel. Luckily I was in line and just over 40 minutes to achieve supply the Palio ... at night there was more fuel in the city.
We bought a roasted chicken and some juice boxes at the supermarket (local only) and went immediately to the vicinity of the runway where it mounted DAKAR base camp, and we would spend the night parked in the best style "wild camping" near competitors.
As he approached the camp, the confusion grew and finally, we find an overview of the place: a large area equivalent to two football fields, all fenced and guarded by the Gendarmerie Nationale, full of trucks, helicopters, motorcycles, cars, tents, RVs and people ... people ... people and more people everywhere.
Felt like a documentary on Discovery ... :-D
After taking some pictures, try to find somewhere to spend the night, and found a right place right near the front door, it would be safe and well within the watchful eyes of police and gendarmes were up around the camp.
We settled, I next to the car outside and Camille in, where we spent the night there, drinking coffee, eating cookies filled, drinking mate and chatting with the many tourists who were in the same situation as us.
The camp on the other side of the fence was a true "Circo Beat" (as in the song by Fito Paez) ... exotic ... noisy ... work did not stop all night ... mechanics and supervisors of all equipment without stopping, while the positions of equipment pilots were exhausted and delivered to sleep, trying to recover for another day.
In the middle of the night, we began to hear the arrival of a large number of police cars, Chile and soon after made an official statement from the organizers of the Dakar stage canselated was to come, due to heavy snow fell during the night by closing the Paso de San Francisco, so it was very dangerous to the stage of the competition, when it was decided that the stage would be only normal displacement between Fiambala and Copiapo in Chile.
At 6:40 am on the move has escalated and teams began moving about, starting engines to prepare for the start of turn.
Immediately lift the camp and went out to El Paso International trying to get a good spot to shoot over the equipment.
Now I leave you with images that speak for themselves and show how it was good to have seen this circus really!
First I would like to talk a bit about the last leg we did, was really out of the "script", as we decided last minute touch up Faiambalá and monitor the stage of the Dakar that was passing by ... was pure improvisation.
We were breakfast at the hotel in Tafi del Valle, missing two days to reach the border of Brazil and back home, when began airing on TV on FOX SPORT images of Dakar and the news heading to Fiambalá .. . Camille and I looked and it was when it began broadcasting images of FOX SPORT Dakar and the news heading to Fiambalá: GO!
We finished breakfast, grab bags and more and we went all along the route ...
We arrived at Fiambalá, (400 Kms peak) in mid-afternoon of that day, after going through the stretches of asphalt and gravel from the RN40, through beautiful landscapes and picturesque villages as well.
The city was a veritable "confusion", as the population of just over 2,000 residents were not prepared to receive the event size and a large number of tourists from all over Argentina and the world. The small town became a veritable Tower of Babel, with people of all sorts, talking about all kinds of language, cars and motorcycles with enrollments of any party.
These were people walking the sidewalks filled, trucks Rally organization all over, competitors mixed retracements llegavan ordinary cars, the only hotel in town full of people (there were people who rent the homes of local for the night on the sofa and chairs) and the only station in the city lined up, full of cars almost out of fuel. Luckily I was in line and just over 40 minutes to achieve supply the Palio ... at night there was more fuel in the city.
We bought a roasted chicken and some juice boxes at the supermarket (local only) and went immediately to the vicinity of the runway where it mounted DAKAR base camp, and we would spend the night parked in the best style "wild camping" near competitors.
As he approached the camp, the confusion grew and finally, we find an overview of the place: a large area equivalent to two football fields, all fenced and guarded by the Gendarmerie Nationale, full of trucks, helicopters, motorcycles, cars, tents, RVs and people ... people ... people and more people everywhere.
Felt like a documentary on Discovery ... :-D
After taking some pictures, try to find somewhere to spend the night, and found a right place right near the front door, it would be safe and well within the watchful eyes of police and gendarmes were up around the camp.
We settled, I next to the car outside and Camille in, where we spent the night there, drinking coffee, eating cookies filled, drinking mate and chatting with the many tourists who were in the same situation as us.
The camp on the other side of the fence was a true "Circo Beat" (as in the song by Fito Paez) ... exotic ... noisy ... work did not stop all night ... mechanics and supervisors of all equipment without stopping, while the positions of equipment pilots were exhausted and delivered to sleep, trying to recover for another day.
In the middle of the night, we began to hear the arrival of a large number of police cars, Chile and soon after made an official statement from the organizers of the Dakar stage canselated was to come, due to heavy snow fell during the night by closing the Paso de San Francisco, so it was very dangerous to the stage of the competition, when it was decided that the stage would be only normal displacement between Fiambala and Copiapo in Chile.
At 6:40 am on the move has escalated and teams began moving about, starting engines to prepare for the start of turn.
Immediately lift the camp and went out to El Paso International trying to get a good spot to shoot over the equipment.
Now I leave you with images that speak for themselves and show how it was good to have seen this circus really!
