Atlas Legends – Ride Morocco with Billy Biketruck

Five days in the High Atlas, riding with Billy Biketruck

This October we are taking twelve riders across the two greatest roads in the High Atlas, and Billy Biketruck is coming with us.

Billy manages Charley Boorman. He has ridden around the world alongside him, organised the expeditions, and spent more time getting groups of riders across more continents than most people manage in a lifetime of trying. He knows what makes a trip like this work and what makes one fall apart. He will be with the group for all five days — every kilometre, every meal.

Billy picked the route. We have been riding these roads for years, and we would not change a metre of it. You leave Marrakech southbound over the Tizi n'Test — the first paved road ever driven across the High Atlas, a narrow ribbon of switchbacks that drops you into the Souss valley and the walled city of Taroudant. Two days later you come home over the Tizi n'Tichka, the highest paved pass in North Africa at 2.260 metres, sweeping and fast where the Test was tight and technical. Between the two you sleep at the foot of Aït Ben Haddou, the earthen ksar that has stood on its hillside for centuries and doubled as half of Hollywood's ancient world.

Think Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, The Jewel of the Nile and The Man Who Would Be King. Aït Ben Haddou has been a favourite of filmmakers for sixty years — the studios at nearby Ouarzazate were built for it — and you can still take a drink in the rooftop café where Sir Michael Caine and Sir Sean Connery relaxed between takes.

Three riding days, around 700 kilometres, and almost none of it dull. A short tour that rides like a long one, with the right person out in front.

Why this one is different

• Billy rides with you. Not a handshake at the welcome dinner and a wave at the airport. Five days, every kilometre, every meal.
• Twelve riders. That's the lot. One departure only, and when they are gone they are gone.
• Both great passes. Tizi n'Test on the way out, Tizi n'Tichka on the way back. Very few Morocco itineraries include both.
• A UNESCO World Heritage site on the route. Not a detour — you sleep beside it.
• Short enough to take as a long weekend. Five days door to door, and only two of them need to come out of your holiday allowance.
• Our own BMW Motorrad fleet. R 1300 GS, R 1300 GS Adventure, F 900 XR, F 800 GS, S 1000 XR and R 1300 RT, all with luggage, helmet and gloves included.
• A support van with the group. Your luggage travels ahead. You ride unloaded.
• We are a licensed travel agency. REVV Travel is an ACAVE member and the official operator of Charley Boorman's Royal Atlas Tour. Your booking is with us, and it is protected.

Departure

1–5 October 2026

Twelve riders, and that is the only date we are running it. October is the best month of the year to ride the High Atlas — the summer heat has broken in the Souss valley and the passes are still weeks away from their first snow. Pillions are welcome.

Find out more about Billy Biketruck in this entertaining interview with Adventure Rider Radio.