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Andrea:

I've toured extensively through Morocco on my Honda ST 1100 (definitely not an off-road motorcycle!) and my experience has been that all the highways in Morocco will be no problem at all for your vehicle. The roads between major & medium size communities are generally well-maintained.

Below is a quote from a post Tim made some years ago when I inquired about road conditions:

"There's four categories of roads in Morocco
A = autoroute (A1... A9)
RN = routes nationales (N1...N19)
RR = routes régionales (R101... R999)
RP = routes provinciales (P1001... P9999)

You can normally expect all of these to be tarmac with the exception of part of the N12 either side of Zagora."


I'm not at all optimistic that ferry service between Morocco and Spain will have resumed by the time you plan to start your trip (2 weeks from now). There are several discussion in the Morocco forum that address the suspension of ferry service in great detail - have a careful look at the contents of those discussions.

As Tim noted in his post, Moroccan SIM cards are cheap, you can get a prepaid card with gigabytes of data on it for very little money. You'll need to bring your passport with you to purchase the SIM card.

Expect that you will be stopped frequently by police at the entrance and exit to cities. They will want to check your passport. This is a good thing, it is one of the reasons why it is so safe to travel in Morocco. The police are always very polite and pleasant to deal with. You can speed up the checkpoint process by pre-printing "fiches" that you give to the officers at the checkpoint. They appreciate this, because it speeds things up. Here's a link to a post at the Morocco Knowledgebase forum that explains the process of creating fiches, and provides a link to an Excel spreadsheet you can use to create fiches: Print 'fiche' forms for checkpoints. Disregard the information in the first post on that thread about import forms, all that has changed since that post was created in 2011.

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