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The idea of a Trans Morocco Trail is one I’ve had for ages. And after covering 1000s of km in 2023-4 in cars and on bikes updating my M4 book, plotting a brilliant, see-it-all TMT route was easy.
The TMT is the same deal as your TET, TAT etc: a .kml file of verified tracklogs and waypoints free to download off the regularly updated TMT master map above. After that it’s all up to you: do it all; do bits leaving your vehicle there or with rentals; plan it minutely for months on end, or just wing it.
Like the North Coast 500, it is nothing more than a network of long existent roads and village access tracks threaded together and given a catchy name starting with ‘Trans’. And like the book, the TMT is not a hardcore off-road challenge because there can be enough of them out there, as the September 2024 floods have shown. Tarmac stages may run for an hour or more, but these are all great mountain roads or deserted desert highways which are all part of the overland adventure.
Each stage has a summary on the TMT master map but some – like Stage S including Erg Chegaga perimeter piste – will be unsuited to unfit riders on tall, overloaded motos during a hot spell – which these days can run from April to October.
Road or trail there’s always an easier way round that’ll often be as good, or just a way to recover. No need to wear yourself out on the way to Cap Draa unless you want to. I estimate 14 days to cover K to Z comfortably.

You don’t need to buy my Morocco Overland 4 book to follow the TMT, but there’s another ~15,000km of routes in there, enough for several more TMTs, all with detailed descriptions which include long TMT stages. It could be handy as a tracklog is just a line across the landscape.