Description: Pre-order Morocco 4 – posted in December Morocco Overland online resources: Updates and Corrections Documents Getting there and mobile phone SIMs Routes Maps HU Forum After three years and 25,000 kilometres in five 4x4s and on seven bikes, the 4th edition of Morocco Overland (right) has been sent in to production Publication is officially scheduled for January 2025 at £24.99,…
In the good years the various tracks between Djanet , near the Libyan border, and Tamanrasset at the southwestern foot of the Hoggar mountains all combined to make classic multi-day adventures in southern Algeria .
You traversed Algeria’s fabulous southern expanse, from the sandstone ramparts of the Tassili N’Ajjer plateau, long famed for its prehistoric rock art , then went around (or over, left)) the dunes of the Erg Admer and out across oued-strung plains. Passing isolated mountains and other outliers, the volcanic rubble and basalt columns of the once molten Hoggar erupted from the sands and lifted you up to Assekrem , a few hours from Tamanrasset and a refuel.
The main route used by non-clandestine locals ( A6 in my Sahara Overland guidebook, see bottom of the page) was still nearly 700 kilometres or two desert nights for most. It was also on the limit of what an unsupported bike could manage. When I first did it in 1987, the road from the north ended in Illizi , 400km from Djanet over the Fadnoun plateau . That all added up to over 1000km and one of the best all-dirt stages in southern Algeria, with just enough pre-GPS navigational challenges to keep you on your
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