Annual Events In Dakar

Dakar Rally

Although the start has moved from Paris to Lisbon, the light at the end of the tunnel remains Dakar. Since 1979 participants have been traversing the thousands of kilometres of the Sahara desert, and as African political circumstances have changed over the years, so have the routes. In 2008, the rally begins in Lisbon, Portugal, and then traverses Morocco and Mauritania, ending in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. A number of professional rally drivers partake but most of the entrants are amateurs enthralled by the sheer test of it.