Rally ho

So we said to the people next to us at breakfast ( who were off sandboarding) that we were having a free day to just take it easy - hmmm

We read about a fort that was 3 km away so after a 45 min detour to see if we could find the Dakar rally at the customs point we set off. Of course we forgot that most forts (including this one) are built on top of hills. By the time we got there it was midday. At least with the sun directly overhead we has manage to find a breeze. Anyway this fort ( Pukara de Quitor ) was the last bastion of the Atacameno people against the Spanish who beheaded a load of them to make a point and having done that promptly converted them all and gave then Spanish names. They were not impressed. Little museum was cool and I practised my Spanish again by translating all the signs. Of course I have no idea if I was right or not but hey....

then we decided one hill was not enough and so we walked down from the fort and up the other side to the viewpoint which was very good. Martyn especially liked it as at first we could here some very loud engines and then as we rounds a corner and looked down quite a way there were all these rally cars and bikes going past - guess what we had found. Hurrah. So the one hour round trip to the viewpoint became about 2 hrs as we sat and watched the cars and then after our wall back to the Hostal as we sat having our empanada lunch/dinner all the support trucks started driving by which was quite funny ad the little village streets here are quite narrow and the trucks struggle to get round the corner. Martyn very excited. So excited he didn't notice how patchy and red his legs were starting to look - uneven application of sun cream issue. I put extra on and he said "oh I'm alright" hee hee. He's zipped his trouser legs back on now.

Oooops better go and have a wifely enthuse more rally trucks coming. I have to say that sat on the patio in the shade with an ice lolly waiting for the rally to come to me is my preferred way of watching.
PS more piccies uploaded and Martyn has apparently managed to upload some video as well - enjoy (we are!)