PhotoBlog - africa-eco-race

Jan

2011

3:37pm, EST

Big bus becomes a blue dot in the desert during the 3rd annual Africa Eco Race

By Carissa Ray

I love how in the first picture the bus looks like a tiny blue beetle in the huge scale of the desert, and in the second, the photographer not only shows us how big a vehicle it really is, but the wild ride it takes to clear those dunes.

Frederick Florin / AFP - Getty Images

Portuguese Elisabete Jacinto drives her Man during the 7th stage Guelb Agantour to Guelb Agantour in the third Africa Eco Race, on Jan. 5. The Africa Eco Race started on December 29, in Nador, Morocco, and continued over 12 days and 6,000 kilometres through Mauritania to "lac Rose" in Senegal.

Frederick Florin / AFP - Getty Images

Portuguese Elisabete Jacinto drives her Man during the 7th stage Guelb Agantour to Guelb Agantour in the third Africa Eco Race, on Jan. 5.