Maroc Nature is a Marrakech-based operator with its own bike shop and fleet. That matters more than it sounds: you can bring your own bike, but if you hire, you get a properly maintained machine and you don't spend the last day of your holiday digging Saharan sand out of your bottom bracket. The fleet covers road bikes, mountain bikes, gravel and cross bikes and e-bikes, and reviewers have described the road bikes as the best they have ridden on a bike trip and the mountain bikes as carbon 29ers with full suspension and hydraulic brakes, tuned with no gear slipping.

The day tours run from a half-day Marrakech city bike tour at €35 up to a full-day Atlas enduro single-track ride at €190. In between there is the Anougal almond valley mountain bike tour (€140), the Atlas High Roads road ride (€125), a Berber valleys e-mountain bike tour (€175) and an e-bike Atlas escape (€165). These are day trips, not overnight stays — you sleep in Marrakech and are collected in the morning.

The multi-day trips are where the operation shows its strength. A group of twelve friends rode the Atlas to the Atlantic sportive+ route, 700km in six days, crossing the mountains to the coast with minivans always on hand carrying food, water, spare clothes and spares. Another group of twelve Canadians did ten days through the Atlas, met individually at the airport on different arrivals, put up in a hotel two blocks from the bike shop, then driven out of town each morning by a driver named Jamal while a chef, Kalib, went ahead to set up lunch. A group of five riders in their fifties did seven days in the Atlas with bike coaching on the climbs.

Guiding is the other consistent theme. El Mustapha leads many of the multi-day trips and is described as chasing down the strongest rider who took a wrong turn and nursing the weakest up a tough hill on the same day, while explaining Moroccan customs, history, religion, food and music along the way. Hisham and Redouan get similar write-ups. Groups are mixed ability and the routes are adjusted to suit families as well as experienced riders.

Beyond the standard tours, the company runs gravel trips in the Atlas and a fat bike trip through the Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains, riding sand dunes and mountain tracks. The company states it holds the licences and insurance required to operate in Morocco.

What's included

- Guided cycling with a local guide - Support van with food, water, spare clothes and spare parts - Bike hire (road, mountain, gravel, cross or e-bike) if booked - Hotel and guesthouse accommodation on multi-day trips - Airport transfers on multi-day trips - Roadside lunches prepared by the trip chef on multi-day trips - Final-day beach barbecue on the Atlas to Atlantic trip - Berber family dinner with tagine on itineraries that include it

What's not included

- International flights - Travel insurance - Personal expenses - Drinks and meals not listed - Bike hire where not included in the package booked - Cycling gear and clothing