Khorbas Cave

The historic Khorbas cave is located 15 km south of Qeshm Island, dating back to the Medes. If you want to try a new experience, it's better to travel to this mysterious cave.

Khorbas cave with its odd and mysterious holes is one of the wondrous attractions of Qeshm island that remains from the Medes era. During your adventure in Qeshm Island, you'll find this vertical limestone cliff pockmarked with caves.

The structure of this cave is similar to the tower of silence of Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Bushehr, Ahvaz, and Shooshtar. The height of these vertical limestone cliffs is between 20 and 30 meters. The entrance to the Khorbas cave consists of nine apertures. There is a hall behind these apertures and two small niches in this hall. Within the cave, there are halls, corridors, rooms, springs, and holes joined to each other. At the bottom of the door's cave, there is a pond that used to store rainwater and it is full of water in the rainy days.

The usage of Khorbas Cave

There are many theories about the people of this area in the past and the uses of the cave.

1. Some say that the cave used as a temple of Mehr and the Mitra goddess in the Medes era.
2. Another narrative says that after the people of this region followed the Zoroastrian religion, they used it as an Ostudan (A place that the bones of the dead were kept.).
3. The Khorbas Cave is a sanctuary for the poor people who were attacked by pirates in the past.

As the natives say, in the rocky altitudes above the Khorbas Cave, there are a pair of Osprey nesting and laying them there.

• What is the best time to go?

Due to hot and humid climate of the island, the best time to travel there is early December to mid-April.

• Getting there?

You can quickly get the Khorbas Cave from Qeshm City Center by using the Sea road. The distance is about 10 km from the city center. You will reach the Khorbas Cave after 200-meter walk.