The Anti-Atlas

March 9, 2023

February 25th - March 6th 2023

On the hunt for some winter sun we headed off to Morocco again this time in a smaller group of myself, Jo, and Phil to search out a slightly different area - the Anti-Atlas. Despite being plagued by flat tyres throughout our trip Morocco proved why its such a popular adventure biking destination.

Terrible mist going over the Tizi n Test pass on day 2. About 20m visibility with crazy drivers is a bad combo

Butcher in Taroudant

Taroudant

Walls of Taroudant

Taroudant

Motorbiking in a nutshell

Stopping for Tea in a small village in the Anti-Atlas

Agadir Tasguent

Agadir Tasguent

Painted Rocks of Tafroute

Les Gorges d'Ait Mansour

Me being towed because i'm an idiot and thought my bbike was dead when i had actually left the kill switch on

The start of an arduous 50km journey down an empty riverbed

Phil's first trip off-road and we hit some tricky stuff

At best we had some very poor quality roads

But most of it was navigating vast boulder fields

But we made it through, only losing a few brake levers on the way

Phil and Jo at the end of the river bed section

Riding on Honda XR250s for the week

Small off road detour that ended up being far more than we bargained for

Our 2nd puncture of the trip

Luckily Abdul pulled over and was heading to the next town anyway

Riding from Foum Zguid to Erg Chegaga

Very hard to track where we were going, only had satellite images to go by and even they were rubbish

We got our 3rd puncture - same wheel every time and found out that our tools weren't up to the job of changing the tire so had to go find help

Beautiful sunset, no filter needed here

Phil

My favourite part of the trip, riding through the Saharan desert

Not sure what these mounds were

No roads needed, just make your own

Crazy to think how far the sand stretches, like an ocean ahead of us

Out of nowhere a caravan of camels appear

Popped into a tourist tent for a semi cold but much needed coke

Jo

Phil

Another flat tyre! That makes it 5 in total

Camping on the final night in front of the atlas mountains

We slept in this ruin which we think was a movie set, not sure what film though