Moroccan Mountain Bike Adventure

At Marrakech Menara Airport, our team is ready and waiting to welcome you and assist with your luggage. After a short transfer will take us to our fully equipped partner bike store in Marrakech, where you will have time to build up your bikes, and stow your bike bags for the whole week. If you want to rent a bike, adjustments can be made to suit individual preferences. After getting the bikes ready, we'll proceed to the old part of the city, where you'll find our Riad. Following check-in, we'll gather for dinner at a nearby restaurant, and afterward the old medina of Marrakech invites us to a little evening stroll.

After breakfast we meet our guide at the hotel: he will give us a short briefing, then we leave with our jeeps. We drive south to the foothills of the Atlas Mountains and the town of Amizmiz. The road winds steeply up to the high plateaus at 1,900 meters above sea level, where the first trail awaits us with an 18 km descent. The trail offers long playful sections on natural paths and some relaxed uphill sections. The afternoon stage starts with a short transfer by jeep to bring us back to altitude and soon the second singletrack awaits us, which will delight all fans of maximum flow: 12 km on an absolutely fantastic singletrack, characterized alternately by large stone slabs and faster passages on pine needle carpets. We'll meet our drivers again at the bottom, and then head to our overnight lodging; a charming gite - a traditional Berber-style mountain hut crafted from brick - offering picturesque views of Mount Erdouz.

After a hearty breakfast, we ride our bikes from our mountain hut on a relaxed uphill to warm up. This leads us to the first flowy single track of the day, on the plateau of Toumlaline, where local villagers graze their herds of sheep and goats. After another short uphill we find ourselves at the entrance to another super trail of about 7 km length, which ends at our lunch spot. Our support team is waiting for us there with a delicious lunch provided by a local Berber family. For the afternoon we will be shuttled by jeep to the trail head of another great singletrack, here a 9 km long downhill awaits us! At the end of today's stage the jeep is waiting for us and takes us to another part of the Atlas Mountains. On the way we can enjoy the breathtaking landscapes and review the highlights of the day. We will spend the following 2 nights in Ouirgane in an exclusive hotel.

Another day awaits us and more challenges to overcome! We start our journey today first with a jeep transfer deep into the Atlas Mountains, where only few foreigners travels. We enjoy the magnificent scenery and after our arrival at the top of a pass it is time to get back on the bikes. We pedal along a mule trail at an altitude of 2,000 m on a single track that is just made for biking. For lunch we share an appetizing tajine with a local Berber family in a small village. After this authentic stop, it's time for some action again! This afternoon, mules and muleteers will accompany the team to bring our bikes to the highest point of the day - 2,160 m. After two hours of hiking, we'll get our bikes back off the mules and from here we'll ride along the unforgettable shale slopes on a beautiful dusty freeride line to the bottom of a riverbed. But it is not over! A short uphill section and a few pedal turns to reach the last part of the day: 8 km of finest single track through a juniper and oak forest beyond imagination! At the end of an extraordinary day, we arrive at our hotel, where a delicious dinner is served.

Oukaimeden Ski Resort, at an altitude of 2,450 m above sea level, is our playground for the next two days! We leave Oukaimeden by bike and soon an epic flowy singletrack is waiting for us. In the natural terrain you can playfully improve your riding technique, numerous hairpin turns, hills and grippy edges await you, which invite you to play around. At noon we will have a meal with a local Berber family, accompanied by Moroccan mint tea in a pleasant and authentic atmosphere. Afterwards we will continue our ride on wonderful flowy trails. After half an hour of trail surfing, a 15 minute steep uphill awaits us to get us going again, which then leads into an ultimate flow section. At the trail's end, our jeep driver is already waiting to pick us up, and a short drive brings us to the Ourika Valley, where we will stay at a nice Kasbah for the next 2 nights.

Today we will ride through different terrains and cross some Berber villages worth seeing. After a short morning 4x4 shuttle we jump on our bikes and ride on a hillside jeep track to the start of a breathtaking trail. Here a very technical singletrack start awaits us, which demands all our concentration and immediately leads into a full speed section in the pine shade. The second singletrack is first pleasant to pedal and brings us to the next ridge, which leads into a trail. This trail is then a nice compromise between technical, physically demanding and flowy terrain. The trail is embedded in a great 365 degree panoramic view over the High Atlas. The last trail to end today's travel day is an exciting trail that takes us to the end of the valley where we meet our jeeps. They will take us back to our Kasbah in Ourika Valley.

On our last day of biking we will ride south on one of the highest roads in Morocco, connecting Marrakech with Ouarzazate. Just before the Tizi n'Tichka pass we will start again with the bikes for another exciting day around the Tikla valley. An excellent mix of mule trails and hiking paths await us, passing through remote Berber villages where the locals are still amazed to see bikes on their trails. The last single track on a red rock line will conclude our Moroccan Bike adventure. At Azgour we will meet our jeep for a transfer back to Marrakech, where we will first go to our Bike Shop to clean and pack our bikes and prepare them for the return flight. We will stay at a riad in the Medina of Marrakech, which is close to the main square Jemaa El Fna. This square is one of the most incredible places in all of Morocco! At dusk, the square gradually fills up until it becomes an entire carnival of storytellers, snake charmers, medicine men, acrobats, musicians and entertainers. A wonderful place to end our trip!

As our group mountain biking trip comes to an end, we reflect on the exhilarating trails we conquered and the bonds we've formed. Now, it's time to choose: return home with memories to cherish or extend the adventure further into the unknown!