NEW:
March 29th, 2026: Trail of the Southern Oasis
October 4th, 2026: Mines & Dunes
Details drop: December 1st 2025
Registration opens December 1st 2025

Trail of the Southern Oasis

  • 28th March 2026, 16:00: Riders briefing and registration
  • 29th March 2026, 08:00: Start
  • Where: to be announced
  • Finish: to be announced
  • Finisher party: to be announced
  • Two categories solo and pair riders.

2 routes

  • PISTE route: ≈1,800km / ≈10,000vm
  • ROAD route: ≈1,800km / ≈10,000vm

Details drop: 01/12/2025

Our new bike packing adventure this April begins in Morocco, taking riders along breathtaking trails through the Sahara Desert.

Kick off your bike packing season with an unforgettable adventure through the vast beauty of the Sahara Desert. The Trail of the Southern Oasis takes you deep into Morocco’s remote south – where the horizon never ends, and the silence of the desert tells its own story.

Push through rugged gravel pistes or fly across smooth tarmac – the choice is yours. Navigate windswept plains, ancient caravan routes, and forgotten railway outposts that whisper tales of another time. When the sun drops, the desert sky explodes into a billion stars, and silence takes over.

Endless horizons. One epic start to your bike packing season.

Mines & Dunes

  • 3rd October 2026, 16:00: Riders briefing and registration
  • 4th October 2026, 09:00: Start
  • Where: Tangier, Morocco
  • Finish: to be announced
  • Finisher party: to be announced
  • Two categories solo and pair riders.

2 routes

  • PISTE route: 1,190km / 20,000vm
  • ROAD route: 1,520km / 21,000vm

Details drop: 01/12/2025

Mines & Dunes is the successor of the Morocco-BikeAdventure Tangier to Sidi Ifni, originally finishing in Essaouira.

The new Mines & Dunes adventure starts in Tangier, Morocco, but the modern city quickly fades behind you as the route plunges into a world that feels frozen in time. From the first climbs of the Rif Mountains, riders face remote paths far from civilization.

The challenge intensifies in the Middle Atlas and High Atlas Mountains, where 2,600 meter high passes, and isolated mining villages test both endurance and grit. One of the most striking landmarks is the abandoned Ahouli mines, a sprawling industrial relic that hints at Morocco’s rich – and harsh – history.

After the mountains, the trail drops into the Sahara Desert, where riders face scorching sun, endless sand, and dramatic landscapes. Art installations like La Cité d’Orion, The Golden Spiral, and Stairway to Heaven crafted by German artist Hannsjörg Voth, provide brief moments of awe before the final push to the desert camp finish.

Choose your challenge – the piste route (gravel & dirt roads) or the fully paved course. The adventure is designed to take about a week, but as with all our bikepacking events, there’s no time limit.

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Riders feedback

I need to send you a wholehearted THANK YOU, for your fantastic route: I had planned to cycle in Morocco and stumbled across your MBA site, and your insights have made this exactly the adventure I had hoped for: a perfect combination of mountains, piste and awesome roads. 

Nb your Road section 12 were yet gave me another masterpiece: the big smile it gave me

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when I rejected the temptation to follow the signs to Sidi Ifni and instead followed your route with perfect small roads, that curved through the landscape and the last hit from the dragoons tail with the nasty hills and crosswind the required a last dig deep in my resources 👌

Kasper – November 2024

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