DesertDesert and Atlas Motorcycle Tour
Morocco, Morocco
9 days
Nine days based out of Marrakesh, seven of them in the saddle, on a loop that trades the High Atlas for the Middle Atlas cedar belt before dropping to the edge of the Sahara. Riding days run roughly 125 to 280 km and are almost entirely sealed, with only a token stretch of optional gravel. The route takes in the lake at Bin El Ouidane and the Ouzoud falls, the forests around Azrou and their Barbary apes, the old Foreign Legion tunnel on the run down to Errachidia, and the dunes at Merzouga, where the night is spent in a desert camp. Homeward legs link the Todra and Dades valleys, the kasbah at Ait Benhaddou and the 2,260 m Tichka pass. Wheels of Morocco run it with a guide on a bike, hotel accommodation, a luggage vehicle once five riders sign on, and a fleet spanning KTM 390 to BMW GS.



