Amazing Race: 2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

Well it's not actually a race. That's just another way in which the Gazelles in the grueling Moroccan Desert isn't your typical rally. The winner is the team that travels the shortest distance between check points over nine days. There are no GPS systems (just compasses and maps), no binoculars, no cell phones - no men.

Author:
SI Staff
Publish date:
Apr 11, 2017

Amazing Race: 2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Team 405 of Florence DERAMOND and Karima LAAROUSSI MOUHYI both from Morocco, during a the leg from Oulad to Foum Zguid.

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Fanny DELAPLANCHE of team 195 doing early morning yoga before the start of the day.

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Team 196 Ambroisine (Ambre) PITAUD BOULATE pushes the car with Fany LUMIERE in drivers seat after getting stuck on the last leg the Foum Zguid loop.

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Team 310 of Brigitte JUCHET and Amrita VALDANT from france during the last leg of the rally.

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Team 158- "Blondes of the desert" Christine AIACH and Isabelle LOPEZ during the last leg of the Fouim Zguid loop.

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Team 108 of Adeline DROUIN and Karima BENOUARET BENZID from France jump a sand dune during a the leg from Oulad to Foum Zguid.

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Team181 - Swiss. Olinka MORAN and Peggy DREOSTI

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Team 230. The hands and painted nails of Sophie BOURGNE and Armelle CARADEC during the leg from Nejjack to Oulad.

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Team 158- "Blondes of the desert" Christine AIACH and Isabelle LOPEZ

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A competitor approaches a checkpoint during a stage on the rally.

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Team 206 of Ingrid PONCHE and Emeline ALMASIO of france during a stage on day2.

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Where do you take a leak?

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Dominique Serra the founder of the rally watches as car leaves form the start during the last day of competition.

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Jawhara BENNANI from Morocco of team 188 at a checkpoint.

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Team 108 of Adeline DROUIN and Karima BENOUARET BENZID from France jump a sand dune during a the leg from Oulad to Foum Zguid.

2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Competitors of the rally have to camp in the desert between legs of the race.

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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Team 127: VIRGINIE DUEDAL checking the engine before the start of the leg from Oulad to Foum Zguid.

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Early morning before the start of the rally.

2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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2017 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

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