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About a decade ago I spent a couple of years including an extended period of six weeks in the Azrou area of Morocco looking for land to buy to build a biking/4x4 base. Azrou is an area of outstanding natural beauty and one day ride from the entry ports into Morocco. In addition to accommodation of varying quality/costs from bunkhouse to suites I envisaged an outstanding route planning research facility, the chance to drop unwanted gear and pick up on the way back, on-site workshop facility, the offer of locally guided track rides, and even the offer to meet guests off the ferries to escort them to Azrou.
In the end I decided not to proceed. I realised I didn’t really want to oversee a two year building project. And I wasn’t sure whether I could hack being a friendly ‘mine host’ to some of the twerps I was sure to meet.
Azrou whilst nice is fecking cold in the winter which would also have hit my enjoyment.
Ideally you want as close to an all-year round riding area as possible, somewhere with safe property laws, a few expats for company. And inexpensive for buying land, building and taxes.
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"For sheer delight there is nothing like altitude; it gives one the thrill of adventure
and enlarges the world in which you live," Irving Mather (1892-1966)
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