6 Day Mini Mountain & Desert | Guided Off-road Motorcycle Tour in Morocco

Overview

Embark on a superb riding experience, nearly 90% off-road. The spectacular tracks combine with dramatic mountain landscapes and awesome desert views. Beautiful winding trails, gorges, rocky climbs, and some big wash-outs await you! Climb to 2500 meters high mountain passes which open up to sweeping panoramas, and discover isolated mountain villages. Traverse river crossings, sandy rivers, and vast dry desert lake beds, and on the night in the bivouac, enjoy a soulful moment and a beer on the top of the dunes as the sun goes down. Later a campfire with local musicians, good food, and refreshing drinks.

Highlights

• Desert bivouac
• Tour starts and ends in Ouarzazate
• Ascend 2,500-meter mountain passes
• Daily tasty breakfast, picnic lunch, and dinner
• Bike on old Dakar trails and ride the dunes
• KTM 450 EXC motorcycles included
• Ouarzazate airport transfers
• 5 nights accommodation

Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival day in Ouarzazate

   You will arrive at Ouarzazate Airport (OZZ) and have a short transfer to a three-star hotel in town.

2. Day 2: Ouarzazate to N'Kob (approximately 230 kilometers / 143 miles)

   A very pleasant day’s biking will give you time to get accustomed to your bike and the terrain. After breakfast and about six kilometers on the road, you will head first in a north-easterly direction on sweeping trails across the local military range. Leaving the plateau we go down into the dry riverbeds and gorges on the fringe of the High Atlas. The road is predominantly hard packed soil interspersed with some short rocky sections, river crossings, and small villages. There are some long sections of undulating trail, twisting through the hills with not a rock in sight. After 100 kilometers,

3. Day 3: N'Kob to Ouzina desert bivouac (approximately 250 kilometers / 155 miles)

   After breakfast, you will head south from the hotel toward your destination for the night, the desert jaima. Super-fast twisting tracks and riverbeds will eventually lead you onto the enormous dry lakebed of Lake Maider and to a small auberge where you will stop for a drink. From there, you will bike through fesh-fesh, or bulldust, and wind your way through sandy and dry riverbeds to where you refill in Remlia. You will travel a final 20 kilometers through dunes to the night’s stop at the desert bivouac with hot showers. It is situated close to a large area of middle-sized dunes. In the late a

4. Day 4: Ouzina desert bivouac to Dades (approximately 170 kilometers / 106 miles)

   You will leave the bivouac after breakfast, traversing back through the dunes to Remlia where you will refuel. Turning north, you will pass through another section of fesh-fesh, stop for a drink at a local desert auberge in a gorge, and then continue on to very fast tracks, across a never-ending dry lake bed and along winding sandy trails and riverbeds. You will refuel from the four-by-four somewhere out there and then head on to the village of Al Nif where you will have lunch in a local cafe and refuel again. By then, you will have left the desert. Continuing on the northerly route, you will

5. Day 5: Dades to Ouarzazate (approximately 190 kilometers / 118 miles)

   After breakfast, you will refuel and head up the Dades Gorge, off in an easterly direction following the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. You will ride through undulating and fast sections interspersed with rocky trails through major washouts and gullies. You will then be brought out onto a plateau. Picnic lunch will be served somewhere up on the plateau. You will experience several river crossings followed by trails winding their way down into beautiful river gorges before the final 20 kilometers of fast tracks across a flat plateau, bringing you back to Ouarzazate. You will drop the bikes a

6. Day 6: Departure day

   You will be transferred back to Ouarzazate Airport (OZZ) on day six.

Ride Details

Bike

rental (KTM 450 EXC bikes)

Terrain

mix of nearly 90% off-road and 10% asphalt

Mileage

840 kilometers / 522 miles

Daily rides

170 to 250 kilometers / 106 to 155 miles

Riding gear

not included: body, knee, and elbow protections

Meals

all meals included

Accommodation

During this motorcycle tour, you will stay at twin-share rooms in excellent accommodations and a desert bivouac. Moto Aventures uses a selection of three and four-star hotels, most styled on the old kasbahs or fortified houses. On at least one night, the accommodation will be in an original kasbah that has been totally renovated and conditioned to be a hotel. Most of the hotels have swimming pools but they are normally cold! A highlight of the off-road adventure is the night in the desert bivouac, 90 kilometers from the tarmac. After a good meal, you will sit around the campfire and listen to some local musicians. You will stay in Ouarzazate on nights one and five. Relax in N'Kob on night tw

Food

During this motorcycle tour, breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided daily. Half-board meals will be served at your accommodations as well as picnic or cafe lunches when you are on the go. Drinking water during the day’s biking will be carried in the four-by-four.

Getting There

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