Morocco’s diverse landscape, amazing way of life and fantastic climate routinely attracts mountain bikers from around the globe. Morocco’s well maintained roads, great network of dirt path and mountain footpaths offer adventure and exhilaration everywhere.
During the previous ten years, the firm of ours (a family owned Moroccan based operator devoted to adventure travel) has created and also come up with an incredible number of guided mountain bike holidays in Morocco – from really short excursions to multi day mountain biking tours.
Starting from Marrakesh, our itineraries crisscross the magnificent Atlas Mountains, driving south through delightful valleys & oases to arrive at the mighty Sahara Desert.
Our customized Morocco biking tour are created for all skills, from easy cross country biking to technical single track adventures.
And so come for a ride with our enthusiastic group of manuals and examine the best of what mountain biking in Morocco is offering.
We select the mountain bike trip in Morocco for the honeymoon of ours. Typically we’re low-budget, infrequent vacationers, self-sufficient travelers, so spending this much cash for 10 days felt quite extravagant to us. With that in mind I just knew we’d established the selves of ours up being disappointed & crucial in case the journey didn’t wow. Our knowledge was really quite the opposite: The trip flowed seamlessly, very well structured and expertly hosted.
Accommodations were almost all different from one another, and every a delighted and enchanted in its unique way. I’m surprised at various other reviews which say the accommodations were nothing special, I suppose it’s perspective. Nevertheless, I’ve worked at four star hotels and traveled a great deal for work, remaining in top quality hotels and also I preferred each and every among the sites we stayed on this particular trip. (I do not wish to say a lot of as the surprises enhanced the enjoyment). Food was founded on conventional Moroccan fare and was good and plentiful. In particular I liked the movable lunch time feasts (luxurious) and mid morning shady snacks.
The rental bicycles are decent: current, basic level, full suspension Cannondale 29ers – they had been entirely sufficient for the using on this particular journey. Speaking of what, we will have preferred more single track trail and also much less two track primitive road… but perhaps that did not detract very much from the general enjoyment of ours. Very much of the traveling is what Hicham called “Morocco Flat” meaning moving, a lot of ups & downs… several of the ups are rugged, steep, and long. This’s not really a journey for the unfit – though there is usually the choice of obtaining a Land Cruiser ride, but that kind of defeats the entire point.
We began speaking with him in early 2015 and paid our deposit mid summer. Until 2 times before the journey nobody else had opted for it, but before we set off we discovered there was an extra visitor. He was a great addition to the journey, and I am guessing made the dynamics better since we might match up for discussions in the process – freeing us up to become a little more couple y than in case it’d simply been us and the guidebook. Additionally we had been handed a refund that we were not expecting and did not need to ask for.
Talking of guides: Hicham is an incredible companion because of this journey. He’s joyful, kind, smart, funny, genuine and attentive. His bright, easy going attitude and willingness to reply to any and all of thoughts about Moroccan tradition and traditions, the lands we were biking through, stuff we experienced in the process have been a highlight of the adventure. When we did not have questions he made sure we did not overlook things which we did not know to wonder about. He really works unbelievably difficult, biking and also speaking with people morning, but when we have to unwind in the shade at lunch time, he was helping Yusef the driver of ours in making the food of ours. In the nights he joined us for an evening meal, essentially he is on the clock all of the time; I realize that should be tiring though he’s usually passionate and does not appear at all jaded with, what for him, is a task all things considered.
Our driver was Yusef, and I believe I understood correctly that the driving is contracted from a standalone business. He and Hicham are accustomed to becoming a staff and work productively together. Yusef followed behind with a gradual pace and also discrete distance, that wasn’t disruptive to the remote experience. He had also been sort and conscious of the desires of ours, he was usually supporting me to refill my camelback.
We stay in Alaska, and as such the estimations from our Moroccan team as to “cold” night time temperatures wasn’t the experience of ours. I applied a 1.5 season sleeping bag and discovered it lots sufficient, flat in excess of at times.
I used bike precise sandals and biked the whole journey comfortably without any socks. A huge capacity hydration backpack looks like a necessity – our traveling companion basically used clear plastic bottles and also must cease whether he required a drink.
Lightweight trail running shoes with shorty lightweight merino socks have been ideal for the sport day.
I applied a Revelate Designs “Mountain Feedbag” on the handlebar of mine for the camera of mine, which made it very easy to take on-the-fly photos.
We had taken nuts and snack bars together with us, even though we commercially require them, it was good to have choices to treat when there was not a planned break, particularly in the nights when there’s usually rather a lull between arriving at the accommodations of ours and dinner being served.
As we do not travel frequently, we’re not likely to go back to Morocco in favor of having around new… however, if time and information happened to be limitless I’d like to go back. The nation is laid back, progressive in ways that are several along with a sheer delight to traveling in. I’d like going again and also check out among Mountain Bike Morocco’s enduro tours. I’ve hardly any reservations in recommending this particular business and wish there was a six star option!