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Bale Mountains and Sof Omar Cave
Sof Omar Cave is one of the world's most spectacular and extensive underground
carvens: Formed by the the web river as it changed its course in the distant
past and carved a new channel through limestone foothills, Sof Omar is
an extraordinary natural phenomenon of breathtaking beauty. The web river
vanishes into this giant underground world, now an important Islamic shrine
named after the saintly Sheik Sof Omar, who took refugee here many centauries
ago. It is a religious history that, in fact predates the arrival of the
Muslim in the Bale a history calibrated in thousands, not hundreds of
years.
Sof Omar Cave is not far from the Bale Mountain and you approach the cave
through the tiny village of Sof Omar, perched on the cliff above the web
river.
