Qohaito

Qohaito is a high plateau above the town of Adi Keyh, windswept and treeless, carrying one of the largest unexcavated archaeological landscapes in the Horn of Africa. It is very probably Koloe, the town the ancient itineraries place on the caravan road from the port of Adulis up to Aksum. Columns of a pre-Christian temple still stand, tomb fields and inscribed stones lie where they fell, and a masonry dam crosses a gully whose age nobody has settled. The plateau breaks away into a deep canyon, and in a cave on its flank are painted cattle thousands of years old.