I was planning to take my Defender to Morocco in a year or two, but a combination of the ride, noise and cramped cabin have ruled that out for a long trip. It would drive me insane after a day or two.

So as a recently converted Skoda fan I'm thinking about a taking a Yeti. (not my wife's 2wd one)

Has anyone done it yet?

I think it'd be quite suitable provided we traveled quite light, or took extra storage.

4x4, good angles and low weight for a 4x4 should be OK.

I thought about asking SkodaUK to lend me one for 2 weeks to do a tour, but never actually got round to doing anything about it. Morocco is one of the places I really want to go to, perhaps next year.

I even planned most of a route see HERE.

I'm detirmined to do a Morocco trip especially since I've got the route and done all my research, just need a suitable car and the currency. Really need a diesel though as I planned to do it in my Landcruiser and the fuel cost was starting to get silly!

I'd be very interested to hear any plans you have to go.

Forum trip?

I plan for Easter next year or the year after. Depends how my son is and wether sprog number two arrives as a surprise.

Easter due to it being a good time of year as the weather is not too hot. Last time I went it was a very nice +18c at night and about +28c during the day.

In 2006 I did a tour with Trailmasters in a convoy of eight Land Rovers, so I've got an idea of what I'd like to do and it's not very different from your route James.

Forum trip?

Would be fun!

I don't think the Yeti will have any trouble on the routes, unless a flash flood washes out bridge and you have to cross the rivers from bank to bank, they might be a bit steep but I would have thought it would be fine with a bit of a run up.

The 4th Gen Haldex seems to cope with sand pretty well, one of the guys that works for my Dad has just bought a Tiguan (I did suggest Skoda but Skoda have only just become available in the UAE and still pretty much unknown) and he reckons it's even better than his previous car which was a Nissan Xtrail.

Because I had planned to go on my own I was planning on taking a vehicle that would have no trouble no matter what I ran into, so had planned on either a Nissan Patrol or a Landcruiser but diesel Landcruisers are ridiculously expensive and petrol ones are pretty poor on fuel.

I was planning to go in Spring.

No other interested parties then?

I will be driving my Yeti to Morocco in late spring next year. My trip is a birding holiday on the fringes of the Western Palearctic.

A wedding I will be attending has cropped up in Sligo in Ireland on April 14th; so it will be some time after that date.

Sounds very nice, I wanted to go inland a fair bit to get the most out of the scenery, my plan was to return along the Atlantic coast.

I'm still hoping to go, but don't know if I'll be piloting a Yeti or if it will be something else.

Funny you say this, spoke to a mate yesterday who went on holiday recently... I asked where he went and he said his parents place in Northern France then Africa!

He bought an old Volvo 940 diesel and drove 5000 miles in it lol

England > France > Spain > Ferry to Africa

I'd love to do this but I think my vRS Estate would be useless and dad's Yeti too thirsty (maybe?) for the journey being a 1.8TFSI 4x4.

It certainly sounds interesting.

How long would it be for? I would want to take swmbo with me. What accommodation would you use etc.

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It certainly sounds interesting.

How long would it be for? I would want to take swmbo with me. What accommodation would you use etc.

Maximum of three weeks, three days each way and two weeks there.

I'll be taking the wife and our son, it'll not be a "lads beer up and charge about the desert like lunatics" trip.

Mixture of hotels (they are very cheap) and camping in the wilds.

Hmm. Have to talk to swmbo. Not sure about 3 weeks. 1 week is bad enough with my business! If I can make enough money to compensate for not earning for 4 weeks, which is what I'd lose.....

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tenuous link to the thread.... i did morocco (marrakesh) on a honda xl500 in the early 90's (i wonder why my back is wrecked!?) and intend doing a 5day 5000mile round trip scotland-marrakesh-scotland) on my ol' snorton commando to finally nail down an iron-butt tag next spring....hence i feel qualified to spout. 2 people camping gear etc, a 2wd yeti would cream it! in my not so humble opinion and it being morroco, you really wouldn't want to put yerself in a position where yer miles from help, offroad and needing assistance because you 4x4'd it onto a rock.

*edit* anyone doing the trip who like to drop off pair of tyres and 1/2 a gallon of 10w/50 in marrakesh for me please don't be backwards in being forwards! i'll get them on the bike but it'll cause me grief!

Edited 28 October, 201114 yr by scunjee

Btw next year is not on for me, but 2013 a possibility.

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Btw next year is not on for me, but 2013 a possibility.

That's when I was hoping to go.