Both Spain and Morocco are likely to be hot. Thoroughly soak your riding gear with water it it gets too much for you, it's then like riding with a built-in refrigerator.
An easy one for you to try in the north of Morocco is just south of Azrou and I've done a quick map.
Firstly you could visit the wild monkeys and the 'ski resort inside a volcano' at Mischlfen, see at my write-up and map on TripAdvisor
(see note below **)
From there' carry on south on the N13 for a short distance and you will see Jebel Hebri (another volcano) on the east side of the road. Shortly afterwards take the track to the right heading south west. Initially this is stony but it improves. Look out for volcanic vents either side of the tracks. After a while you enter the cedar forest. Some photos: M22 Volcanic Vents and Cedars
There's a network of tracks in this area, just keep heading south west or south and you'll eventually reach tarmac again. Or head for Source Oum er Rbia, see LookLex
**Note from above
In this 'Olaf' map, yellow and orange are tarmac, uncoloured are pistes (tracks). So you could potentially go apes1 to apes3 then cross country to Mischlifen
You can see on the map that after visiting Mischlifen you could head north east for about 800m and take a track that loops round the back of the caldera, then heads off south west towards Jebel Hebri. You can see some pics of this area at M21 Monkeys, Volcanos and Yes
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