High Atlas 6 days Mountain Biking through the Berber villages & valleys, the short visit of the Berber house and mint tea with the locals, for know more culture about them, great views from the pass between valleys.
DESCRIPTION
Experience Meaningful Connections through Charity Tourism with MTB Morocc
During your visit to Morocco, MTB Morocco extends a special invitation to engage in charity tourism. Beyond the exhilarating biking adventures, we offer a range of activities that allow you to connect with local communities in a meaningful and impactful way.
Discover your passion for cooking, music, photography, or art through personalized lessons conducted by resident instructors. Whether you’re perfecting your tagine recipe, learning traditional Moroccan tunes, capturing the vibrant scenes through your lens, or expressing yourself through art, our instructors are dedicated to making your experience enriching.
What makes this experience even more significant is that the economic benefits generated directly contribute to the local community. Your participation supports the purchase of local products and, more importantly, directly benefits the lives of the locals. At MTB Morocco, we believe in fostering a positive impact through tourism, ensuring that your visit leaves a lasting and positive imprint on the communities you encounter.
Discover your passion for cooking, music, photography, or art through personalized lessons conducted by resident instructors. Whether you’re perfecting your tagine recipe, learning traditional Moroccan tunes, capturing the vibrant scenes through your lens, or expressing yourself through art, our instructors are dedicated to making your experience enriching.
What makes this experience even more significant is that the economic benefits generated directly contribute to the local community. Your participation supports the purchase of local products and, more importantly, directly benefits the lives of the locals. At MTB Morocco, we believe in fostering a positive impact through tourism, ensuring that your visit leaves a lasting and positive imprint on the communities you encounter.
THE STRONG POINTS
Non-tourist region Quality of the course Playground (a large variety of small tracks for gravel ike ride) No 4×4 transfers during the course Total immersion in the inhabitantArrival in Marrakech the red city.Large varieties of landscapesUnusual encounters and warm welcome from the people.Achievable from April to November. Departure on the date of your choice from 2 or 3 people.
DETAILS
ACCOMPANIMENT: Mountain bike guide· ACCOMMODATION: guest-house, homestay and hotel· BAGGAGE TRANSPORT: Only your business for the day; a vehicle transports your luggage from one accommodation to another. NEXT DEPARTURES: See datesThe diversity of the landscapes encountered in just one week of travel:Mountains of the High Atlas.Gorges and rocky peaks of Atlas Mountains.Green valleys.Berber villages.
Level of difficulty (1, 2, 3) of this circuit:
As an indication on the technical level, this circuit receives classification 1 or 2:
Level 1: rolling path or path, without obstacles, small roads with little traffic;
Level 2: Path or path with passages containing obstacles (stumps, stones, etc.) steep path with slope.
Itinerary:
DAY 1: Marrakech – Imlil – Tachdirt
Waking early, you will take a leisurely breakfast before leaving Marrakech to Imlil to Tachdirte through Tizi n’Tamaterte pass (2279m), with nice views over the high Atlas mountains you will continue until Tachdirte village. Night at the Berber house. 18 km with extra single track Distance : 18 – 22 kmElevation : +660 m /-430m
Day 2: Tachdirte – Oukaimeden – Ousertk – Imsker
From Tachdirte it will take around two hours to get to the pass Tizi n’Addi. Moving from the pass, cycling down the widow of Oukaimeden and visit the engraved rupestrial rocks, we will then head down to the village of Imsker via the beautiful and typical village Ousertk, the night at the berber house. 25kmDistance: 28km Elevation : +519 m /-100m
Day 3: Imsker – Imi oughlad – Tizi n Techt – Tizi Oussem
Day 3: Imsker – Imi oughlad – Tizi n Techt – Tizi OussemAfter breakfast, we will take a different bike route heading towards Azzaden valley via Imi Oughlad and Ait Maizane valley. Upon reaching the mountain pass Tizi n Techt we will have our lunch in a great view over the Footer of the high atlas mountains, with a chance to take in the impressive views before the descent to Azzaden valley and so colorfully mountains, night at the berber house.Distance: 28kmElevation : +519 m /-100m
Day 4: Tizi oussem – Tamsoult waterfalls – ait Aissa – Tizian – Ouirgane
Today will be a lot of biking, We start our climbing to one of the highest waterfalls in the Atlas mountains 2540m, and today we will have also enough of single track downhill to the discovery of the nicest berber village in the area, Azzaden valley.Then, we will have lunch near the river under walnuts trees, keep biking down to the conflict of the two valleys Azzaden and N’fis valley. Night at the guest house.Distance : 27 km of biking,Elevation : +1100 m / -500m
Day 5: Ouirgane – Tizi Ouezla – Tizi Ouaddou – kik Plateau – ALala Takerkoust (amezmiz)– Marrakech
Early Morning breakfast, we start our adventures in a clean air, climbing the hill to arrive at Tizi Ouzla an overview on the Atlas mountain range, keep biking to Tizi Ouaddou one of the old villages in the area. Having a mint tea and cross the plateau to have lunch on the fields, and biking to Lala Takerkoust meeting the locals, End of the mountain bike tour, arrive at Marrakech in the afternoon. The night at The hotel / Riad.Distance: 30kmElevation : +219 m /-500m
Day 6: Marrakech
Free day / the visit of the city by a local guide
What's includes
Ground transfers necessary for the normal course of the trip
Accommodation as described
Full board during the circuit (except for lunch and dinner in Marrakech)
Supervision by a guide - Moroccan guide from the MTB Morocco team
Assistance from a local team (drivers, cooks)
A group pharmacy
Mineral water (water to be treated provided)
What's Not includes
Insurance, assistance
Lunch and dinner in Marrakech
Visits to museums, monuments and sites not included in the program
Additional trips related to a modification of the program for meteorological reasons
All personal expenses
Everything that is not indicated in the section “the price includes”.
Info
- +212 667 212 912
- +212 660 33 55 22
- mtbinmorocco@gmail.com
- Imlil, Atlas mountains, Marrakech