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The excursionist watching the spring early..
" Telpherage " of Hada in Taif..
Published in Alriyadh on 13 - 02 - 2011

The rains and the spring atmosphere that Taif province is witnessed in these days, had encouraged people and visitors to go to the wild parks, after the temperature had decreased to a lower level, and formation of lakes surrounded by green grass in a very attractive view, to enjoy this amazing nature and spring atmosphere that covered Taif city, Hada and Shafa areas and parks of sesed, Roddaf, Samnan, Smenen and other parks belong to the province especially the southern ones.
These beautiful atmospheres and amazing nature are synchronizing with the school holiday, and passing of the visitors on Al Hada Area in their way to Mecca which contribute a lot in attracting many of them through Al Hada way, which its outflow and duality had participated in turn to facilitate the traffic movement and ease the arrival to Taif and going back, especially that it is passing through Al Hada high mountains, where visitors are stopping to watch these topographic relief, and to watch the stony Hada road where the pedestrians used to use in old times, and remain as a witness of that days, after being considered by the General Authority of Tourism and ancient monuments to re - maintain and save it.
Tourism Authority had maintained the stony Al Hada road and working on saving it.
As well as the visitors from Riyadh, eastern area, Gulf Council countries and others had reached, where the service facilities are crowded with huge number of these visitors which increase the level of operation of these various facilities, one of the places which expected to be the most attractive if " Al Hada Telpherage " which transfer the riders from the top of Al Hada Mountains in Taif to Al Kar touristic Village, where you can watch theatrical programs, water games, " Topagan " skiing for very cheap price, where the indicators of the statistics of Taif Investment and Tourism Company are indicating that about one million visitor had used Al Hada Telpherage carriages since the beginning of this school holiday.
Al Hada Telpherage is connecting between Al Hada Area ( top of Al Kar mountain ) to Al Kar Area ( down of the mountain ) with height of more than 2 kilo meters of the sea level, its speed reach to 6 meters per second, it was executed with the most modern technologies, the telpherage line is extended parallel to the old pedestrian way, the users at night can see the artery of the traffic movement on Al Hada road after completion of its duality and lighting, in a very beautiful view through its handled carriages covered by glass in all sides, the telpherage is consisting of 52 carriages all of which are working in the summer season and official holidays, the capacity of one carriage is 8 persons.
There are a huge waterfall within the way down of the telpherage with height of 70 meters, which give the general view surrounding it more elegance, beauty, and splendor suitable to the atmosphere of Al Hada Area, as well as the system of handled cariages of Al Hada Resort Telpherage is connected between Al Hada resort and Al Kar resort with a distance more than 4200 meter, which is considered the biggest of its kind in the middle east, and the fifth in the world where it capacity is one thousand ( 1000 ) in one hour for only one way.


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