NEWSLETTER – Christmas 2023
Hello fellow adventurers!
Where did the year go? Well, in Morocco mostly for us with lots of exploration of challenging tracks and trails for our new tours.
In this newsletter:
- Morocco Tour dates for 2024
- Morocco Earthquake aid convoys
- For Sale – Immaculate 2008 Defender 110
We’ve had lots of customer interest for Morocco tours in 2024, so to complement our Classic Tour and Grand Tour, we’ve devised another new adventure, the Sandy Special Tour. Like our other trips, this will be a two-week tour in Morocco, but his time it’s a quick scoot down to the desert so we can spend loads of time wild camping, honing dune-driving skills and practicing recovery techniques.
You can find more details of each of our Morocco tours on our website HERE.
Morocco Tour dates for 2024
16 - 29 March Morocco Classic Tour
2 - 15 April Morocco Sandy Special Tour
23 Sept - 6 Oct. Morocco Grand Tour
9 - 22 Oct Morocco Sandy Special Tour
Places are filling quickly, so early booking is essential.
The cost of each tour is 1145GBP per person, based on two people sharing a vehicle.
- Two-week 4x4 tour of Morocco
- Return fast ferry Spain-Morocco
- Full border assistance
- All campsite fees in Morocco
- Two nights half-board in a desert hotel
- Atlas Overland Guide and support vehicle on call 24/7
We’re agents for Brittany Ferries so can organise your UK-Spain crossing if required.
For more details, contact peter@atlasoverland.com
Morocco Earthquake
Our usual Classic Tours at Easter were as busy as ever. After a summer recess we were looking forward to our autumn trips when in early September, the Atlas Mountains were rocked by a devastating earthquake. Desperate to help, the Atlas Overland team, fantastic customers together with families and friends swung into action to organise the delivery of aid supplies as part of our Grand Tour. We liaised with the High Atlas Foundation; a long-established charity based in Morocco to determine what materials were required.
And so it was, on 20 September ten 4x4s heavily-laden with tents, blankets, clothing and emergency supplies, boarded the ferry at Portsmouth bound for Spain and then onto Morocco. At HAF headquarters in Marrakech, our supplies were offloaded, ready to be sorted into family group sets before being loaded onto trucks heading for the disaster zone. Two weeks later, another group of our 4x4s did the same.
Here's a few pictures from the High Atlas Foundation HQ in Marrakech. We're grateful to all of those who donated and to those who transported aid to Morocco. Winter is upon us and conditions in the Atlas Mountains are brutal. Please considder a donation to one of the many appeals such as the Red Cross.
For Sale – 2008 Defender 110 XS Utility Wagon, £23,000 ono
Tonga green with black half leather interior and SVX alloys. 2.4 Tdci with 6-speed box.
- 91k miles
- Full service history with various receipts
- Full LED light set, including headlights
- DAB radio
- Security hinges on the doors and bonnet
- Optimill removable steering wheel boss
- Remapped by BAS remaps. The best for Defender ecu programming.
In the last 2000 miles, new clutch and gearbox output shaft(common issue) upgraded with premium item from IRB Developments. Clutch and shaft cost just under £850 in parts alone.
Great condition, drives very, very well with no known issues.
Slight lacquer peel on the roof.
Contact James jad90@hotmail.co.uk
