Thaif is one of the cities that has a cool air, because it is located in the valley of the mountains of Asir and the mountains of Al Hada. Located about 67 kilometers or 1 hour 45 minutes from Makkah Al Mukarramah City is famous for pomegranate plantations, dates, other vegetables, including many zaqqum trees, and thorny trees. 

The cool air, like the air in Puncak Pas, Bogor, West Java, began. It is estimated that the air temperature in this region reaches 20 degrees celsius, felt cold enough on the skin. The road to Thaif, especially when passing through the Asir Mountains and Al Hada Mountains meandering, long and uphill around the edges of the mountains to the top. Mountain peaks are different from Puncak, Bogor or other places in Indonesia. The mountains here are relatively treeless, barren, rocky and sandy.

However, when entering the town of Al Hada before Thaif, along the road there were only a number of trees and date palm plantations. Some traditional houses also stand in the middle of the plantation. Throughout the region is also filled with a number of tourist attractions for residents of Saudi Arabia. In this place there is also an area that is used as a place to pray Miqot or to give hajj or umrah, namely in Wadi Sair Kabir.

Thaif town is widely used as a resting place and tourism in summer. Even the kings and their relatives built many resting places in the region. So Thaif also earned the nickname Qaryah Al Mulk or Village of the Kings. There are also frequent bilateral, regional and international meetings and agreements.

According to information obtained by believers and some literature, in fact in this city is often held onta race. However, before winter between October and January, in this area also in the Al Safa region, is the season of Pomegranates and Orchids.

This Monday (04/19) Bin Salman flower garden in Taif, Saudi Arabia Harvest Damascena Rose (Damasc) in this year coincides with the holy month of Ramadan. After harvesting the flowers are processed into fragrance oil.