50cc vs the Atlas Mountains & Sahara Desert
Monkey Run Morocco
Take a tiny 50cc monkey bike and wobble forth into the Sahara. Then force it over the Atlas Mountains and finish in a dusty cloud of glory just outside Marrakech. Expect sweaty desert, endless plains, snow capped mountains, river crossings, back roads twisting through epic gorges, bike-mangling off road tracks and lots of camels.
We provide the start line and the finish line – in between is 7 days of adventuring perfection. You decide how lost you get, which mountains to push your bike up and where you sleep.
The Monkey Run Morocco is a finely balanced blend of overland chaos set to the soundtrack of other people’s laughter. They’ll laugh at you because you’re pushing a tiny bike up a mountain. You’ll be grinning because you’re riding the world’s most perfectly unsuitable adventure machine.
Give your buttocks the gift of a monkey and Morocco will deliver by the giant spade-load.
The Nuts and Bolts
Your adventure kicks off with pre-adventure beers in Marrakech. The next morning the rider bus delivers you to the start camp tucked away behind giant sand dunes in southeast Morocco. On test driving day we show you the ways of the monkey and you practise piloting the ultimate miniature adventure machine.
There’s a slightly dangerous sand-riding time-trial, a sun-downer session on top of a massive dune followed by the evening launch party. Then the early morning launch ceremony sends you off into the splendid unknown.
After a week of being jabbed in the ribs with the pointy stick of mayhem you roll in to the finish camp in the desert just outside Marrakech. There’s a finish line stage, Chesterfield sofas and a pop up bar and kitchen overlooking the empty plains of Agafay. Watch your fellow fools roll in covered in dust and smelling a bit like old socks while you share tales of adventuring disaster and tiny bike triumphs.
Then round off your adventure with an alfresco feast, the awards ceremony and a finish party to kill off your remaining brain cells.
