Sahara Tours

Tour programme 2024-25

April 2024

	TYPE AND DURATION	DATE	PLACES LEFT
MOROCCO FLY/RIDE 2024	T1 • 7-day, 6-bike tour	Nov 10-16	FULL
MOROCCO FLY/RIDE 2024	T2 • 7-day, 6-bike tour	Nov 18-24	FULL
MOROCCO FLY/RIDE 2025	S1 • 7-day, 6-bike tour	Feb 4-10	FULL
MOROCCO FLY/RIDE 2025	S2 • 7-day, 6-bike tour	Feb 12-18	3 left

Some places provisionally reserved for Feb 2025

Photo James S

I first travelled in the Sahara in 1982 and since 1989 have run occasional desert tours. I organise small groups to little-visited places, or follow unusual itineraries that inspire me, working with local guides, agencies and other service providers I’ve got to know and trust over the years.
I ran an eclipse tour to Niger in 2006, an ambitious crossing from the Atlantic to the Libyan frontier, as well as several motorcycle tours in Libya, Algeria and for the last decade or more, Morocco. I’ve also run camel trekking tours in Algeria, have joined tours in Mauritania, and with the help of contributors, wrote a camel trekking e-guidebook to go with my biking and car handbooks.
I don’t produce a regular tour programme or online brochures. I never send out annoying newsletters or collect mailing lists. I don’t do Facebook or pay to advertise anywhere. The pages you see here are all there is. For more about me, click my picture, above left.

Motorcycling in Morocco 2024–25

For my Morocco Fly & Ride one-weekers, in 2024–25 I’ll run two in November and two in February 2025. Right now it looks like November is full, though there may be cancellations.

With no more than six in a group, these tours include a few half-days off-roading and are pitched at off-roading beginners to give a taste of trail biking and Morocco without getting exhausted or freaked out. The focus is on quiet roads, relaxed lunches, spectacular pistes and ambient Berber mountain lodgings, rather than hammering dawn-to-dusk from one blinged-out tourist kasbah to another.
For 2024 I have raised the price to £999, but that now includes a single room as default. This actually works out as a price reduction on the previous tariff. If there are two people who would like to share, each person pays £100 less (£899).

Most riders choose the 2018 BMW GS310s with off-road protection and other mods. Since their introduction my route has been revised to cater for these more road-oriented bikes. Read about them here or here. There may also be a 750GS and bigger, but these heavy bikes often come with road tyres which can be hard work on loose gravel. They also cost up to 80% more than the 310s.
Personally, I’d stick with the 310s which are dead easy to manage off road and great fun on bendy desert blacktop. That said, with a predicted 100,000 largely trouble-free kilometres on them, by the middle of 2024, there’s talk of the mini GSs being replaced with… new 310GSs. It seems the Moroccan Police have taken a shine to them and they’re being imported again.

More here. Pictures from previous tours here and here. FAQs here. Please read the FAQs.

Please contact me about these tours, or would just like to find out what’s possible.