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Descripción: Real desert, at last! For us All-Terrain+ tires, serious business began when the 2011 Dakar finally reached Chile where our daily menu for a few days will be sand, giant dunes and wide open spaces. Wonderful stuff! The Atacama is the worlds most arid desert. They say it has never rained in Calama, the town which hosted Wednesday evenings overnight camp at the end of Leg 4. Unsurprisingly, therefore, aquaplaning was exactly a problem for us on the days 206km stage which began at the foot of the Andes Mountains, on the Chilean side. A little earlier, we had crossed the majestic cordillera via El Paso de Jarama, at an altitude of 4,836 metres -- higher than the Mont-Blanc! -- near the Eduardo Avoroa, Los Flamencos and Olaroz Cauchari national parks where lamas, vicunas and guanacos could be seen grazing peacefully. None of us suffered from altitude sickness, but we could fell a little extra pressure gushing through our veins... (menos)

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