Serejeqa

Serejeqa ( _ti. ሰረጃቓ) is a town about 20 km northwest of Asmara on the asphalt road to Keren, which in turn lies roughly 75 km away. The town lies on the ridge of the Eritrean highlands and is the upper end-point of a gravel-road which traverses the eastern escarpments and has its other end-point in Shebah on the low-lying plains at the foot of escarpments. With this gravel road, Serejeqa connects the northwestern part of the highlands, including the city of Keren (Eritreas third largest city) with the Red Sea and the port of Massawa (the second largest city), without having to pass through the congested capital and largest city Asmara or use the equally congested mountain-segment of the Asmara-Massawa asphalt road. Instead, the gravel road beginning in Serejeqa on one end, connects to the She'eb-Gahtelai asphalt road which in turn unites with the less congested lowland part of the Massawa asphalt road, just 35 km from Massawa itself. Due to its proximity and great connections to Asmara, Serejeqa also functions as a suburb of the capital, although it is oddly not part of the metropolitan region of the capital (i.e. Maekel or Central Region). It is in fact part of the Anseba region which has its capital much farther away in Keren.