morocco short trip January

de crowe · Nov 2, 2012

if anyone interested from this parish I am planning a small trip in January
here is the link.

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=318289

contact23 · Nov 3, 2012

hi De Crowe , i like the sound of renting a bike over there , however im not up for a jan trip , out of interest what you paying for the rental ?any companies you recommend seeing as its your 2 time out, thanks and enjoy the trip, nice time to get outta dodge too!

de crowe · Nov 6, 2012

rental price

rental prices are roughly between 90 to 120 euro per day depending on the bike and the company, longer rental get cheaper prices.

I will post info once we get back hopefully safe and sound.

Dakar · Nov 6, 2012

Best of luck and enjoy...

Planning on doing Morocco next year, but January just a little early

Haven't decided to drive from here or like you, do a fly drive

Look forward to the report etc

Jaws100 · Jan 10, 2013

Been there and back

a great trip all in all
A few pics to start

View from hotel room Marrakesh

Heading to Ouarzazate on the N9 over the Atlas Mountains

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Jaws100 · Jan 10, 2013

From Ouarzazate to Zagora

ChubbyThumper · Jan 10, 2013

looks great John, clear skies, how were the temperatures?

Would you recommend Bikershome?

Jaws100 · Jan 10, 2013

ChubbyThumper said:
looks great John, clear skies, how were the temperatures?

Would you recommend Bikershome?

Nights quite cold....daytime we had lovely temperature's from 11am to 17.30
The coldest night we experienced was in Ouarzatate....we had to sleep in our thermals under woollen blankets. The further South we went and turning West the weather we experienced was much warmer and very comfortable to ride along.

"Bikershome"....could certainly do with some heating at night in January but otherwise it was good and plenty of food dished up to us. Peter is a wealth of information and provided us with great tips on some of the places we intended to visit.

Jaws100 · Jan 10, 2013

Zagora to Foum-Zguid and on to Tata on the N12

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TheMcQuaid · Jan 10, 2013

I wanna know how the sertao's were?

de crowe · Jan 10, 2013

Sertao's

They were super Mark. :bow

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very capable, very forgiving, miserly on fuel and very comfortable.
They were perfect for this trip.
All in all it was a great trip. Jaws a great traveling companion.
Unfortunately I had to leave some gear (clothing rather than drugs) behind so I will have to return to sort that out!!

Kamikaze · Jan 10, 2013

Great pics, John.

Lovely looking terrain.
On my "to do" list. :type

Jockser · Jan 10, 2013

Nice pics. Looks like it was good craic (pair of feckers

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Platinum Motorcycles said:
I wanna know how the sertao's were?

They're just F650s with a new colour scheme aren't they ?
Had the XC out there a couple of years ago & it was an ideal bike for 99% of it.
Great everywhere but cr@p in sand. Or was it just me that was cr@p in the sand :augie

bikewise · Jan 10, 2013

nice pics

I rode down to merzouga in sept 10 with 3 others and absolutely loved it but did not get to do much offroad as two gs's with two blackbirds, made up the group but we will return as it was mega. I think i would rent next time or use overlanders as the run up and down took so long we only had 8 days in morocco. Thanks for the photos it brings back great memories.