Plan a trip to Eritrea

Places to see in Eritrea

12 of the 17 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Fiat Tagliero BuildingUNESCO

  Memorial · Maekel Region

  The Fiat Tagliero Building is a Futurist-style filling station in Asmara, Eritrea. It was completed in 1938 and designed by the Italian engineer Giuseppe Pettazzi.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: sailko (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Church of Our Lady of the RosaryUNESCO

  ካቴድራለ

  Religious · Maekel Region

  The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara is a Catholic church built in the early 1920s in Asmara, when the city was the capital of Italian Eritrea.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: sailko (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Asmara

  City · Maekel Region

  Asmara, or Asmera, is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region. It sits at an elevation of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft), making it the sixth-highest capital in the world by altitude and the second-highest capital in Africa.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: sailko (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Massawa

  City · Northern Red Sea Region

  Massawa or Mitsiwa is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago. It has been a historically important port for many centuries.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Reinhard Dietrich (CC0). Map

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  Keren

  City · Anseba Region

  Keren, historically known as Sanhit, is the second-largest city in Eritrea. It is situated around 91 kilometres (57 mi) northwest of Asmara at an elevation of 1,590 metres (5,220 ft) above sea-level. The city sprawls on a wide basin surrounded by granitic mountains on all sides.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Mheidegger (CC BY 4.0). Map

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  Mendefera

  City · Debub Region

  Mendefera, formerly Adi Ugri, is an ancient town which is now the capital city of the Southern Region or Zoba Debub of Eritrea.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  Mosque of the Companions

  Masjid Sahaba

  Religious · Northern Red Sea Region

  The Mosque of the Companions, also known as the Ras Medre Mosque, is an open-air mosque in Massawa, Eritrea, located on a small island off the Red Sea coast. According to local tradition, the mosque dates from the early 7th century CE and is believed by some to be the first mosque in Africa.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Mheidegger (CC BY 4.0). Map

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  Nabro Volcano

  Mountain · Southern Red Sea Region

  The Nabro Volcano is an active stratovolcano in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is located at the south-east end of the Danakil Alps in the Danakil Depression. Before its 2011 eruption, the volcano was widely believed to be extinct.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Carport (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Dahlak Kebir

  Island · Northern Red Sea Region

  Dahlak Kebir is the largest island of the Dahlak Archipelago. Situated in the Red Sea off of the coast of Eritrea, it was formerly called Dahlak Deset.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Amod Photography (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Harmil

  Island · Northern Red Sea Region

  Harmil is an uninhabited island in Eritrea that forms part of the Dahlak Archipelago. The inhabitants are serving members of the Eritrean Navy who have a small outpost on the island.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: user:Hautala (Public domain). Map

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  Nora

  Island · Northern Red Sea Region

  Nora is the second largest island in the Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea, and one of the three inhabited islands of the archipelago. It has an area of 105.15 km2 (40.60 sq mi). It reaches a maximum height of 37 meters in the northeast.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: NASA World Wind (Public domain). Map

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  Debre Bizen

  Religious · Northern Red Sea Region

  Debre Bizen is an Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church monastery. Located at the top of Debre Bizen the mountain near the town of Nefasit in Eritrea. Its library contains many important Ge'ez manuscripts.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Grullab (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map