For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race ...

Driver Barbora Holicka and co-driver Lucie Engova drive their Citroen 2CV during the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally Classic ...

In Senegal's capital Dakar the following day, wrestlers compete in the country's specific form of the sport - known as laamb.

This week, the cast of the world premiere play Dakar 2000 by Rajiv Joseph at Manhattan Theatre Club met the press! Check out photos from the event here!

After Pikine, the bus was heading to other suburbs of Dakar before going to Mboro, a town in the Thiès region in western Senegal and later to Casamance, the Senegalese region south of the Gambia.