First Morocco Trip.
 

Four of us on our first real bike trip away - three guys from Bugsplatz MCC in Telford and me. We've gone for the full GS cliche with three 1150GSs and an 850R all kindly serviced and checked over by Neil Harrison (aka Steptoe from another parish).

The fortnight's route is roughly Telford/Swansea to Portmouth then Santandar before a mad dash to Algeciras then Tanger Med to Chefchaouen, Azrou, Merzouga, Zagora and Alt-Benhaddou before a couple of days in Marrakech and a drag home from there.

It's a first-timer's account so very much getting a feel for the country.

It's a couple of days behind too - we're nursing some injuries after a couple of small "offs" in gravel that was much deeper than it appeared in the never-ending roadworks between Zagora and Ouarzazate.

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Great trip report and photos and it can only get better, hopefully. Hoping to go myself next year for the first time if I can find anyone who'll let me tag along with them. Keep the TR coming.:thumbup1:

If you're interested mate.......


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I loved my R850R, what a great bike...

It's a pity you didn't see the beautiful side of Azrou. About eight years ago I spent six weeks there looking for land to buy to build a biking base. In the end I decided I didn't want a three-year building project, but it remains one of my two favourite places in Morocco with its springs and lakes, wild flowers, cedar and holm oak forests, ski resorts, wild monkeys...

We really only saw Azrou through jaundiced eyes Tim. We shouldn't really have set off from Chefchaouen that day and after getting drenched and fighting our inexperienced way through flash floods we arrived in Azrou without having researched or booked accommodation ahead and took the very first thing we saw. We were mobbed as soon as we pulled up. Poor planning and poor decision making and Azrou unfairly got the blame!

We've learnt a lot of lessons on this trip.

Thank-you for all your contributions to the HUBB and the Morocco Knowledgebase by the way. It's been invaluable for us in planning this trip and without your efforts I'm pretty sure we'd have never had the courage to set off.

I'll return to Azrou with a more open mind the next time I visit Morocco I promise!

David.

What's positive is that you've called the thread 'first trip'. If you enjoy the freedom of riding in Morocco there is so much to see and do that you could return time and again. And if the overland journey gets too much, fly into Marrakech or Agadir and hire a bike for a week or so.

Enjoyed that report ....I'm heading of down to merzouga and dades, todra etc in a weeks time.....hope the rains gone.....:Beach: