On our mountain bike tour Morocco you will drive through the center of the rugged and dry Atlas mountains, after early paths walked by decades of Berber traders. Traversing and climbing huge mountain passes, descending sparse singletrack to rich valley floors…each day punctuated by mint tea along with a friendly’ Bonjour!’ from locals as we spend.
Journey Highlights
Staying in an assortment of regular accommodation
Descending more than 3,000m from very high mountain passes
Soaring large across the countryside in a hot air balloon
Stopping for mid ride mint tea with your neighborhood Berber team
Discovering the colours, sounds and also scents of the souks in Marrakech
Is the Morocco biking tour for you?
We would like you to possess the very best experience in Morocco, therefore it is crucial that you make sure that this’s the ideal mountain bike adventure, with the proper degree of challenge, for you.
You are a seasoned mountain biker, using a minimum of two times a week through the season and comfy on: long climbs on double and singletrack; steep, loose singletrack descents; rough, rocky trails, some with considerable exposure; rutted, uneven terrain.
Mountain bike trip Morocco Itinerary
This point-to-point mountain bike tour Morocco is going to take you across the Atlas mountains, over higher arid mountain passes and also into lush green valleys, immersing you in centuries old way of life plus tradition when you go. You will be using at more than 2,000m / 6,500ft a great deal of the moment, so be ready to speed yourself as you acclimatise to the altitude and surroundings. There’s also significant exposure on a few trails.
Arrival in Marrakech – refresh + prepare on your adventure We suggest arriving in Marrakech one day or maybe 2 soon to allow the body of yours to change to local time and also to help make sure any luggage or flight delays do not spoil the trip of yours. It’ll also allow us to produce a beginning beginning on day one making almost all of the mountain bike tour of yours in Morocco.
- Day one – Welcome to Morocco! Explore Marrakech plus the markets
The guide of yours is going to meet you all at the H+I recommended hotel in Marrakech (Riad Africa) early in the day, and then over several mint tea go from the all important pre trip briefing. He is going to set the overall tone of the week ahead, explain the trails to come and respond to some questions that you might have.
After your briefing you will see your community guide and also reach the city for a trip worldwide famous Jemaa El-Fnaa square, craft markets, into the souks, and savor your pleasant dinner in only one of your guides’ favourite places concealed in the alleyways of Marrakech.
Accommodation: Small riad, Marrakech
Meals included: L, D
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Day two – Marrakech – Imlil We’ve a really early start this morning (05:30), to operate a single hour from Marrakech, into the countryside to an extremely unique area. This’s the lift off website for our sunrise very hot air balloon ride!
The flight is going to lift us over the gorgeous landscapes and also villages surrounding Marrakech, and also you will view the sun rise over the High Atlas Mountains. After one hour or perhaps so experiencing the tranquility of getting in the environment, we will head to our Riad for a good breakfast.
When fed and watered we will make Drive and Marrakech into the foothills of the Atlas, to the village of Imlil. From here, we will put up the very first drive of ours on Moroccan soil, dealing with a three hour loop from the village.
This’s a fantastic introduction to the kind of driving you will encounter this week, with a blend of’ off-road’ (dirt road) and singletrack trails, a small amount of pressing the bike at times, and trail that is narrow with a good deal of coverage.
Along the manner in which we will end at your guide’s home village to discuss mint tea with the loved ones of his.
We will arrive again at your little hotel in Imlil, find washed up after which enjoy dinner over looking the mountains.
Distance cycled: 20km (app. three hours)
Accommodation: Mountain resort in Imlil
Meals included: B, , L D
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Day three – Imlil – Ouirgane As you awake out of your very first night’s sleep in the High Atlas mountains, you’ll be provided with the usual breakfast of breads, eggs, fruit, pancakes, lots of mint tea & spreads. With appetites pleased we will be prepared for modern challenge: dealing with the pass of Tizi Mezzik (2280m).
We will provide our accommodation behind and warm up the legs of ours in place with a street climb to the beginning of the singletrack. The beginning of the trail is high, rocky and loose, as well as with altitude in the blend, it is more effective to stuff our bikes onto the backs of mules and also ascend this particular portion on foot.
We’ve around 2 hours of hiking up the high incline to the pinnacle of the pass.
CAT’S TIP: If you are riding SPDs it will be well worth keeping a light pair of walking shoes, it will try to make the hike even more comfortable.
In addition to the pass we will stop soaking up the immense views that involve us, before we apply knee pads and straddle the bikes of ours because of the descent. There’s just a pencil thin line of singletrack which slices its way across the hillside, before peeling on the valley through villages which seem to be located on the edge of the mountains whilst we incorporate from only one aspect of the river on the other person.
We will stop for lunch in a tiny village, where the chef of yours would have ready an excellent spread of salad, bread, pasta, fruit and tagine, to re fuel for the remainder of the drive of yours.
We will step on road for some time, get a portion of singletrack which drops us into jungle type trail along a river, and then white rolling trails to our bit of paradise for the evening in the High Atlas.
This’s a difficult working day, driving loose, narrow trails, with publicity on the right-hand-side, plus several areas that you have to move as well as drive. Nevertheless, the benefits are astounding, with a lot of several singletrack, stunning landscapes and village riding.
Distance cycled: 30km (app. seven hours)
Accommodation: Small hotel Ouirgane
Meals included: B, , L D
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Day four – Ouirgane – Amizmiz Today from the rich green valley of Ouirgane, to the narrow gorge at Oshefilen and onto the plains around Amizmiz, we drive a fairly simple climbing day, skirting the shoulder of the space of the High Atlas mountains.
After a brief warm up trail which has you using though a Mars like landscape designs, endless trail options, with natural pumptrack, we cross the biggest dam in Morocco to get into one more amazing ribbon of singletrack to the stunning gorge of Oued Nfis.
The trail becomes rocky and steep in locations and also you are going to have to push the mountain bike of yours at particular points, but there is a fantastic descent taking you for your gorgeous riverside lunch spot.
After lunch the scenery is going to take your breath away, with wild flowers, poppies as well as the ever changing colors of the planet a frequent because you drive several of probably the finest singletrack imaginable. The final 10km of trail is flanked by dry stone walls and tiny, subsistence farms en route for your guest home just outside Amizmiz (1,005m).
Distance cycled: 30km (app. six hours)
Accommodation: Small guest house near Amizmiz
Meals included: B, , L D
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Day five – Amizmiz – Inirt Breakfast at the guest house of ours is going to set you up well for a morning of weaving between villages, poppy fields plus remarkable mud structures sculpted by many years of wind and rainfall.
This’s a considerably more chilled day, with plenty of time for picture stops and lots of rolling descents in the early morning.
Next we will step things up somewhat with a 45 minute road climb to our lunch stop, where staff has geared up one more delicious feast, with goats munching and also ambling shrubs in the history.
We might indulge in a brief post ride siesta, to enable the foods of ours to digest before the final forty five minutes of climbing to reach the plateau.
From the excessive plateau we will drive a blend of shepherd trails with stones, along with free ride hillsides which will point us to our mountain accommodation underneath the shadow of the towering arid peaks of the High Atlas.
The host of yours is going to welcome you right into a fantastic, secluded courtyard in which you are able to relax and enjoy a little mint tea, read an ebook or explore the area surroundings before dinner.
Distance cycled: 30km (app. 4 5 hours)
Accommodation: Guest house Tasghimoute
Meals included: B, , L D
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Day six – Inirt – Ouirgane As we snake the way of ours out of our mountain village which was home last night, we pass farmers employed in the early morning light and workers traveling up the dried out river bed, kicking dust up into the warming morning air, nearly all on our right way to our greatest point of today at 1,873m above the village of Ourmer. We are going to need to assume bicycle for the final fifteen minutes from this climb, but this gives a specific amount of adventure for this great day in the High Atlas of Morocco.
We will have a little food and ingest the amazing sights on each side of the pass, admiring the singletrack which extends out before us.
The very first segment of trail is extremely narrow and eroded, so there’ll be necessary sports sections. Though it appears flowing plus rideable, the effects of creating an error or even misjudging a nook are simply too much here.
After that the trail gets much less exposed and we will be descending for the next few time, blowing dust clouds up behind us as we go. But help save some energy, as this particular trail has several ups along the means to empty the thighs and legs of probably the most enthusiastic mountain biker!
As we arrive back at the support vans, we load up and top across the valley to the accommodation of ours for the following 2 nights. Settle in and appreciate the swimming pool, recharging the batteries of yours for tomorrow’s grand finale of mountain biking in Morocco.
Distance cycled: 50km (app. 5 6 hours)
Accommodation: Small hotel Ouirgane
Meals included: B, , L D
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Day seven – Ouirgane’ Big Descent’ Day From the small bit of yours of paradise in the mountains, we will be shuttled 20km across the valley by the support crew of ours.
As they leave us and head to meet up with us at the lunch area of ours, we head out on the final throw of the dice for this particular adventure in Morocco, that requires 10km of the most sensational descending imaginable!
After this impressive one hour descent of singletrack & sweeping corners, we will have lunch then head to the hotel of ours, where we will have the time to unwind by the swimming pool before our final celebratory dinner! A really unforgettable very last morning with this sensational traverse through Morocco which is a feast for the senses at every single turn.
Distance cycled: 32km (app.7 hours)
Accommodation: Small hotel Ouirgane
Meals included: B, , L D
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Day eight – Departure