Gerudo Highlands Shrine Solutions

    
                               

The Gerudo Highlands are the cold, rocky mountains between the Gerudo Desert and Hyrule. Bring warm clothing. Three of the six shrines here are tied to quests or hidden: one sealed in ice, one revealed by a riddle, and one that needs a Luminous Stone.

Jump to a shrine: Joloo Nah | Keeha Yoog | Kema Kosassa | Kuh Takkar | Sasa Kai | Sho Dantu

See the full shrine list for every region, and our interactive map for exact locations.

Joloo Nah Shrine: Joloo Nah Apparatus

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Shrine quest, Test of Will: Gorons near Mount Nabooru challenge you to cross hot ground in two stages. Wear heat protection (and drink a Fireproof Elixir) and don't carry wooden gear.

Joloo Nah is northeast of the Wasteland Tower; it rises once you finish the Gorons' shrine quest. All three rooms use motion-control apparatus.

  1. First room: rotate the cube so every lamp on it touches the green electric source in the ceiling and turns green. Spinning it all the way round both horizontally and vertically does the trick. (A shock arrow lights them all at once.)
  2. Second room: put the metal cube on the switch on the right-hand platform with Magnesis, so the right fan rises and the left one lowers. Use the apparatus to aim the gusts of wind at the fans. Then glide to the left switch, stand on it and freeze it with Stasis, and hurry through the gate before Stasis ends.
  3. Last room: light every torch on the cube while keeping them out of the waterfalls. Tilt the cube only forward and back to light the first four. Then freeze one waterfall spout with Stasis and quickly light the rest. Fire arrows work too. Putting the room's metal chest on the switch next to one waterfall shuts that waterfall off.

Chests: Golden Claymore, in the bottom left corner of the second room: aim a gust at it and glide over on the wind. Gerudo Spear, on a wooden platform in the last room: lift the hanging fire lantern with Magnesis (or shoot a fire arrow) to burn the leaves, and the chest falls.

Keeha Yoog Shrine: Keeha Yoog's Blessing

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Shrine quest, Cliffside Etchings: Geggle near Tabantha Bridge Stable points you to a cliff mural of lightning. Shoot the glowing spot beneath it with a Shock Arrow.

A blessing shrine on the southwest side of the Cliffs of Ruvara, east of the Gerudo Summit. Its shrine quest has you shoot a switch high on the cliff with a shock arrow. Inside there's no puzzle.

Chest: Diamond.

Kema Kosassa Shrine: A Major Test of Strength

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A Major Test of Strength at the foot of Mount Agaat, northwest of the Gerudo Tower. The Guardian Scout has a spear, a sword and a shield. When it's nearly beaten, rush it before its barrage of explosive lasers.

Chest: Silver Rupee, in front of the altar.

Kuh Takkar Shrine: Melting Ice Hazard

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Kuh Takkar is encased in ice at the base of Laporah Mesa, northeast of the Gerudo Tower. Melt the ice with fire (a fire weapon, fire arrows or campfires). Inside, you carry a block of ice to the altar past jets of fire. If it melts, a new one appears at the start.

  1. Pick up the ice block and carry it past the fire jets in the floor. Stay close to the wall to get past the rotating fire jet.
  2. At the wall of horizontal fire jets, don't carry the ice over your head. Set it down, freeze it with Stasis and hit it so it slides under the jets, then run under and pick it up.
  3. Cross the lava stream on the submerged metal cube. Set the ice down, lift the metal cube out of the lava with Magnesis, and use it to block the fire jets ahead while you carry the ice past on the left.
  4. At the last row of vertical fire jets, line the metal cube up beneath them. Freeze the ice with Stasis and hit it, and lift the cube just before Stasis ends so the ice slides through the gap. Then hold the cube above your own head as you walk under the flames.
  5. Carry the ice up the ramp to the gate and on to the altar. It will have shrunk, but that's fine.

Chest: Frostblade. Next to the ladder down to the central area, block the upward fire jets with the metal cube, glide down onto it and open the chest. Bring the cube back up afterward; you'll need it.

Sasa Kai Shrine: A Modest Test of Strength

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Shrine quest, Sign of the Shadow: Kass sings at the Gerudo Tower. Glide to the platform below and shoot at the sun at the time his song hints at.

Sasa Kai is a little southwest of the Gerudo Tower. Its shrine quest, from Kass, is a riddle: from the shrine's location, look at the Gerudo Tower and shoot an arrow at its top at the moment the moon (at night) or the sun (around 3 to 4 PM) sits on the summit. Inside is a Modest Test of Strength.

Chest: Frostblade, in front of the altar.

Sho Dantu Shrine: Two Bombs

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Sho Dantu is northwest of the Gerudo Tower. It appears when you place a Luminous Stone on its pedestal. Inside, you set off launchers and crystal switches with both kinds of Remote Bomb.

  1. Blow up the wooden crates in the left wall to reach the next room.
  2. Put a cube bomb on the platform that pops up periodically. As it's thrown into the air, detonate it at the top so it hits the orange crystal inside the cage on the pillar. A side room opens.
  3. In the side room, put a cube bomb on the launcher in front of the pillar, and a round bomb next to the switch behind it. Detonate the round bomb to set off the launcher, then quickly switch runes and detonate the cube bomb at the top of its jump. The door at the end of the main room opens.
  4. In the last room, put a cube bomb on one launcher; it drops into the cage in the middle. Then put a round bomb on a launcher; it bounces back and forth between the two.
  5. Stand on the platform near the entrance. Detonating the bombs raises your platform and hits the crystal that opens the gate. Set off the cube bomb in the cage to lift your platform, then the bouncing bomb when it's right over the cage. (Our sources describe the order differently; if one way doesn't work, try the other.)

Chest: Silver Rupee, behind the big pillar in the second room.