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10 Days Guided Fantastic Motorcycle Tour in Spain and Morocco
Algeciras, Spain; Rabat - Bin el Ouidane - Marrakech - Ouarzazate - Merzouga - Fez, Morocco
Motorcycle Tour in Morocco and Spain
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Come to Morrocco and enjoy an exhilarating motorcycle tour in this amazing country. The variety of its landscapes from the mountains to the dunes of the Sahara, its charming villages and the monumental cities, all-inclusive and fun guaranteed to form an unforgettable trip. A fantastic country with everything you imagine and much more.
Key information
- Terrain: asphalt
- Bike: personal bike or rental bike (BMW F 850 GS, Guzzi 850 TT, BMW R1250GS)
- Mileage: 2,350 kilometers / 1460 miles
- Daily rides: 244 - 474 kilometers / 152 - 295 miles
- Riding gear: included: helmet (divided helmets allow you to take better pictures), jacket, pants, gloves, motorcycle riding boots, hard road boots (at least half-length), trail jacket with pockets, trousers
- Meals: 9 breakfasts, 9 dinners, 8 picnic lunch (free day is not included)
Meet the guides
Gustavo
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Highlights
- Discover the Medina of Fez
- Starts and ends in Algeciras, Spain
- Spend a night in the square of Marrakech
- Watch the sunset in the dunes of the Sahara
- Ride the amazing roads of the Atlas
- Take a trip to explore Chefchouen
- 9 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Intermediate
Styles
9 riding days in Spanish
The organizer also speaks: English, French, Italian, Russian
Group size: Maximum of 10 participants
Accommodation
In Morocco, you will be accommodated in four-star hotels or riads, except on one night where you will spend it in the dunes. The riads are traditional houses or palaces located in the center of the cities and with a charm that is hard to forget.
Program
Day 1, March 6: Algeciras
Meeting at Algeciras, briefing regarding the tour. Delivery of documentation. Welcome dinner. Accommodation in a four-star hotel.
Day 2, March 7: Algeciras - Ferrie Tangier - Rabat (323 kilometers / 201 miles, 5 hours)
Departure to Algeciras where you will take the ferry, boarding to Tangier. Cross the Strait of Gibraltar with the views of Europe and Africa, Spain and Morocco. Two mountain ranges limit the Mediterranean Atlantic and here the ancient Carthaginians placed the Columns of Hercules.
In Morocco, you will take care of the entry formalities and then travel in search of the Atlantic coast to admire the beautiful town of Asilah. This old fortified Spanish population squeezes its white houses behind the walls by the sea. A good place to give the palate with Atlantic fish.
You continue riding to reach Rabat, the political capital of Morocco where you will spend the night near the Mausoleum of Mohamed VI. Dinner and accommodation at a five-star hotel.
Day 3, March 8: Rabat - Bin el Ouidane (293 kilometers / 244 miles, 5 hours)
You travel south through Moroccan agriculture, the plains where most of the country's vegetables are produced. Later you will have an ideal place to eat. In the afternoon, you travel to the mountains where you will arrive to enjoy the magnificent hotel overlooking the lake where you will rest.
Day 4, March 9: Bin el Ouidane - Marrakech (238 kilometers / 148 miles, 4 hours)
A short stage to enjoy Marrakech. To start, you will pass through the famous waterfalls of Ouzud. Upon arrival in Marrakech, you leave the bikes at the hotel very close to the Plaza and in the center but very quiet and you will go to enjoy the Djenna el Fna Square.
Listed as Intangible Heritage of Humanity, this area hosts a motley world of vendors of all kinds, dancers, storytellers, musicians, acrobats, and snake charmers. Catch and leave your mind full of magnificent memories.
Day 5, March 10: Marrakech - Ouarzazate (244 kilometers / 152 miles, 3.5 hours)
After breakfast, you cross the Atlas Mountains and go in search of the desert. This route is full of emotions. To start the port of Tizi Tichka, the highest in Morocco. Curves and more curves for a prodigious place. You cannot miss the photo on top with the whole group.
The descent is even more interesting going through Ait Ben Haddou, a traditional Berber village full of khasbas and listed as World Heritage. Here, many films like the famous Gladiator were filmed.
You will be in sight of the city and after a few kilometers, you cross Ouarzazate, the red city to go to rest in another fantastic hotel. You are in the desert and the vision of the lake next to the hotel comforts. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 6, March 11: Ouarzazate - Merzouga (429 kilometers / 267 miles, 6 hours)
Another unforgettable day in the desert with its spectacular landscapes and the so-called Khasbas route. You will get to know one of the most photographed places in Morocco. The gorges of Dades with its road of curves in the horseshoe.
You will also visit Todra Gorges with its reddish vertical walls. At the end of the afternoon, you will arrive with the best light to Merzouga with its large orange sand dunes. You have to arrive with daylight, to leave the bikes and change the mount. In dromedaries, you go into the desert to go to sleep in some jaimas (large traditional tents of the Bedouins) in the middle of the dunes.
The sky will offer you its dome of stars as can only be seen in the Sahara Desert. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 7, March 12: Merzouga (day off)
Day off. You return by camel to the hotel where you leave the motorcycles. Breakfast buffet.
There will be many optional activities such as trail routes, quads, camel routes or walking on the dunes or just relax in the pool. This day you will do the photoshoot with the bikes in the desert and the dunes in the background. Hotel accommodation and dinner in front of the dunes.
Day 8, March 13: Merzouga - Fez (474 kilometers / 295 miles, 6 hours)
After breakfast, you leave and continue north through the Tafilalet oasis with its thousands of palm trees going up the Ziz valley. The typical villages follow each other on the route and you have to look at the different clothes of women according to the family to which they belong.
Little by little, you left the desert behind and rolled down the Ziz gorges and the Legionnaire tunnel that marks one of the desert doors. Then you go up the Atlas mountain range to pass through Azrou and Ifrane, the ski capitals in Morocco.
You reach Fez with enough time to rest a little at the hotel overlooking the medina and then go for a walk inside. This medina is the largest in the Muslim world, a labyrinth of narrow and twisted alleys where artisans and merchants will reach the tanners' neighborhood. Dinner at traditional Berber house. Enjoy a stay at a four-star luxury hotel.
Day 9, March 14: Fez - Tangier - Algeciras (351 kilometers / 218 miles, 5 hours)
After breakfast, depart to the north. You continue through mountains and the Moroccan rural world with its multiple spring colors and arrive at Chefchaouen, a beautiful white town hanging from the Rif Mountains. Chefchaouen, Chefchaouen or Chefchaouen, according to the language, is a beautiful white and blue town.
After lunch, you travel directly to Tangier where you will embark back to Spain. Accommodation in the same hotel that you use at the beginning. Farewell dinner.
Day 10, March 15: Algeciras
Breakfast. Deliver photo albums. End of services.
Skill level(s) required for this tour: intermediate
Intermediate:
- can ride for 3-4 hours
- average riding experience
- little assistance required
- comfortable with extreme curves and leans
- average experience with unsurfaced roads
- steep ascents and descents
Motorcycles available for this tour
For this tour, you can ride your own motorcycle or rent one from Gustavo Cuervo World Tours. The options are BMW F850GS and Guzzi 850 TT (2820 EUR for tour and rental), and BMW R1250GS (3040 EUR for tour and rental).
Guides
Gustavo Cuervo
In 1975, Gustavo started to travel by motorcycle all over the world and a few years later he organized and directed his first group of motorcycle riders around Africa. He had the pleasure to ride with hundreds of travelers of more than 30 nationalities, and the best thing is that they are still friends and traveling together. Gustavo likes to explore and has more than two million kilometers in 90 countries, and he likes to shares what he knows.
Location
You will start the tour in Algeciras, Spain before going into Morocco on a ferry to Tangier. Then, you will tour across Morocco before going back to Algeciras.
Food
Your trip includes nine breakfasts, nine dinners, eight picnic lunches (free day is not included).
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Algeciras reception
- Welcome dinner
- 8 days guided trip
- 9 nights accommodations in shared double room
- 9 breakfasts / 9 dinners
- 8 picnic meals (free day is not included)
- Ferry Spain-Morocco round trip
- Vehicle support luggage transport and driver assistance
- Detailed rutometer
- Professional motorcycle guide
- Vehicle assistance guide
- Local guides
- 1 special farewell dinner in Algeciras
- Non-alcoholic drinks included
- Monuments tickets, local guides
What's not included
- Transfers to or from Algeciras
- Motorcycle gasoline
- Motorcycle damage (possibility of VIP insurance)
- Tips
- Additional features
- Everything not included in the "What's Included"
How to get there
Recommended Airports
XRY
Jerez Airport (La Parra Airport)
316 km
Transfer not provided
AGP
Málaga Airport
368 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Jerez Airport (XRY) or Málaga Airport (AGP). Airport transfer is not included. For more information on how to reach the meeting point, please send an inquiry.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 10% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 20 days before arrival.
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