5-Day High Atlas Mountain Biking Tour from Imlil through Berber Villages

• Start at 9:30 am and cycle towards Tizi n' Tamatert (2,300 m). You can have lunch there if you are already late; otherwise, stop for lunch in Techdirt.

• After lunch, you have two options.

• Option one: take a single-track and off-road biking route. Note that people who cannot use the single-track will use the off-road route.

• Option two: relax with some tea at the top and continue biking to Amgdoul for lunch there. After lunch, take the single track between the Berber villages.

• As you pass by several villages, you can also have tea in one of them, especially IKiSS.

• When you arrive in El Bour, you will have to carry your bike or push it.

Overnight stay.

• Early in the morning, start with two hours of biking to reach the top. Then, you again have two options.

• Option one: keep biking to Id Issa Village and have lunch there. After lunch, start biking up to Tizi Oussim village. When you reach the village, try to make your way to Ighoulidin Waterfall. Upon arrival, get some rest, enjoy the scenic views, and then start biking down the same road.

• Option two: bike down from the top via single-track to the Berber villages, then carry the bike in the van and drive towards the top for lunch. After lunch, bike towards Id Issa village.

Overnight stay in Id Issa villages.

• After breakfast, bike down along a nearby river and across the villages, enjoying a wonderful landscape on your way to Tassa Ouirgan.

• Have lunch in Ouirgan.

• After lunch, keep biking close to Ouirgan Dam towards Ait Zitton on a lovely single track amidst superb flora.

Enjoy an overnight stay in Ait Zitton.

Note: On the way to Ait Zitton, there are some places where you may need to carry your bikes.

• Wake up and have breakfast, then keep biking for approximately half an hour.

• You will carry your bikes up to the forest for 15 minutes. Enjoy off-roading until you reach a river, and then carry your bikes again for the next 10 minutes.

• Take a single track through fields toward a pass, where you can have a break before going downhill.

• Have lunch, then start biking again for the next 30 minutes to the accommodation.

Overnight stay.

• Restart from Imi n'Talla via an off-road route until you reach a village at the foot of the mountain.

• After this, you will carry your bikes up to a pass and then take a break for a while.

• Head down to Oued N'fis. When you reach the bank of a river, there are two options.

• 1st option: take a single-track.

• 2nd option: follow the river to a village where you can have a cup of tea.

• Keep biking down in the same direction until reaching the site where you will have lunch.

• After this, bike a little further to reach your hotel in Ouirgan, where you can spend the night or transfer back to Marrakech.