The 2010 Dakar (née Paris-Dakar) Rally is well under way. The race began on January 1st and is scheduled to end on the 16th. Thanks to security concerns, the Dakar Rally no longer runs, as its name once indicated, from Paris to Dakar. The event now takes place in Argentina and Chile, and while it’s nowhere near as epic as before, it’s still nothing to sneeze at — some stages encompass up to 550 miles of off-road travel and include everything from desert terrain to dense forest.

We thought we would just post some pretty cool pictures of the Dakar 2010 on Trickshift, but Im sure you can find many other pictures from the rally across the web.