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After three winters and 25,000 kilometres in five 4x4s and seven bikes, the 4th edition of Morocco Overland (right) was published in February 2025 at £24.99 rrp.

Morocco 4 is a major update: the route guide has now been divided into seven regions (below + Eastern Ranges). All routes have been verified and loads of new routes have been mapped across two dozen new maps outlining scores of exciting trails (nearly double the previous edition) spanning 250,000 km² across southern Morocco’s fabulous mountains and deserts.

Since the beginning, Morocco Overland has been the only guidebook of its type in any language to properly address travel using motorcycles, cars or bicycles. Whether in your own van, SUV, 4×4, adventure motorcycle or an MTB / gravel bike – or are flying in to rent any of those, Morocco 4 includes everything the regular travel guides or free tracklog downloads miss out to help make the most of your self-guided adventure in southern Morocco.

And it’s not over yet. What I couldn’t pack in before the previous edition (right) went out of print in early 2024, I’ll try and catch up on this winter and post here.

There’s more! Me and travel biking pal Ed Gill launched the Trans Morocco Trail in November 2024.
Like the well known TET and the TAT, the TMT is a series of free-to-download GPS tracklogs covering 3250km between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It includes some of the best trails I found while researching Morocco 4, plus what Ed dug up in the east. Check out the TMT website, carefully read the FAQs, peruse the TMT forum and cast your eyes over the luscious imagery on our Instagram. The TMT is an awesome see-it-all route for cars, motos and velos.

What new in Morocco 4?
Responding to booming post-Covid tourism in Morocco, after 15 years and three editions, Morocco 4 gets a major overhaul. Less than 10% of the previous edition’s routes remain unchanged.
Southern Morocco’s 250,000km² have now been divided into 7 regions to help refine the opportunities for exploration. Where they still exit as tracks, previous routes have been revised and/or extended or combined, but more than half the routes are all new, especially in the epic Saghro and Anti Atlas massifs, as well as the popular Sahara region.

• 68 detailed routes and dozens more tracks covering over 20,000km
• Scenic byways (ROIs) suitable for all vehicles
• Guidance on 4×4, 2WD or moto vehicle choice and preparation
• New section on bikepacking by the intrepid RTW cyclist Alissa Bell
• Off-road riding and driving tips
• Waypoint format changed to touchpad friendly decimal degree (D.D°)
• Fully revised section on mapping and navigation devices
• Moroccan ferries, borders, port maps and rental options
• Selected recommendations on places to stay

Morocco 4 also introduces new sub-categories of routes which are mapped and outlined, but lack the full route description as above (Z1). The latter two classifications offer more experienced adventurers in appropriate vehicles even more ideas to pursue:
ROI – ‘Roads of Interest‘ – campervan friendly scenic drives you’ll not want to miss
BLV – ‘Beyond the Last Village‘, Many fully described routes include a middle stage that’s ‘beyond the last village’. Here, the regular track which follows is no longer used by locals, usually because there’s now a better way or the track surface is too far gone for local 2WDs. The track falls into disrepair, disappears altogether in riverbeds, and transits are only done by adventure tourists in all-terrain vehicles.
VOR ‘Verified Other Routes‘ – either from previous editions or otherwise verifiably proven optional tracks that aren’t logged in detail.
OUT ‘Other Unverified Tracks‘, interesting pistes found during online- or in situ research that invite off-road exploration, but have not been verified as passable.
Both VORs and OUTs are in blue text which means they can be intuitively skipped over so as not to interrupt the flow on the current track’s route description (see Z1, below).

By getting us away from the tourist traps further north, your book has changed our perception of Morocco for the better and we finally stopped saying to each other ‘this is nearly as good as Namibia’ to once or twice saying that it was actually better! Thank you. JS

I’m smiling sometimes because of the nice language. I’m used to scientific reading and writing, so the reading of the guide is like an interesting conservation with a comedian – or something like that. CP.

… thanks for all the feedback – and your book for that matter. It is still as brilliant as your first Sahara Overland. I’ve been using a few other [Morocco] books lately (Gandini, Mobil Unterwegs, Pistenkuh…). Your methods of description are by far the best. And lovely writing as well.
FW, Oued Draa
We took a lot of inspiration for routes from your book. We really enjoyed it and we gratefully thank you. The updates on the web were also really helpful. The waypoints for the routes we followed were clear and in combination with a printed map, the navigation was pretty straightforward.
GM, Greece
… by the way… U are still my go-to for info even tho’ I’m pretty well connected in Morocco!!
Billy ‘Biketruck’ Ward