Sof Umar Cave

The cave is one of the world’s biggest and Africa’s largest cave. This marvelous underground world is located in Dawe Qachan District of Balé Zone at a distance of 110m from the Zone’s capital Robé and 40 kms from the nearest town Goro.  The cave’s major attraction features include:

• The cave’s area which is typically characterized by flat topography and a deep gorge cut by River Wabe which  forms the cave, and  in particular the Ayyo-Mako cliff gate of river entrance is the right spot where visitors start cave expedition  while the Hulluqa is the resurgence of  both visitors and the river from the cave;
• The beauty of the cave comes from the untouched and savage aspects of the huge main passages, the very special shape of the sections of the galleries, the white color of the lime stones and basalt that form the walls, the great number of entrances, the bewitching noise of the river, labyrinthine morphology of the galleries network and the presence of the many bats, etc;
• The 42 internal entrances and its total passages distance of 15.6 km its 1.2 kms tourist route, which crosses the river seven times and takes visitors about two hour's walking.