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Originally Posted by Walkabout
For such a proposed trip I would be more concerned about a few other factors:-
Overall lack of hours of daylight - what to do during the far more than 1/2 of each day that is in darkness?
Accommodation - most campsites will be closed. One can assume that hotels/hostels would be used?
... Morocco, which may not be all that sunny during the early months of the year,
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Tim Cullis will probably (certainly) know more about what Morocco is like in January than me but from the few times I've been there in the winter my rule of thumb is that it doesn't get to be what I'd regard as warm (say similar to an average British summer) until you're south of the Atlas mountains - roughly Agadir onwards if you're on the coast route. And it can be pretty rough if you get some kind of storm system over the mountains.
I'm planning on going down there at a roughly similar time to Elektraglide and while I'm taking camping stuff I'm probably not going to be using it until south of somewhere like Tan Tan. It'll be hotels / hostels before that.
The short days of mid winter are a real problem, particularly if you're on your own. It cuts down how far you can ride each day and unless you're a life and soul of the party sort of person it leaves you with a lot of time to kill. There's only so many books you want to read in hotel rooms.
If it has to be a winter trip going in March is a lot better than January but of course you often don't have a choice. The daylight issue, rather than cold or rain, is what has had me planning winter trips in summer and then having second thoughts when winter actually arrives.
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