The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) has renovated a 1,000-year-old mountainous walkway that links the holy city of Makkah with the summer tourist resort of Taif. (SPA)

Published: Jan 11, 2012 01:48 Updated: Jan 11, 2012 01:48

JEDDAH: The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) has renovated a 1,000-year-old mountainous path that links the holy city of Makkah with the summer tourist resort of Taif.

People in the past used this path to transport their goods and agricultural products on camels. “The zigzag design of the path enables people and animals to walk through it easily,” an SCTA official said.

The pathway is considered one of the important pieces of cultural heritage in Taif, carrying great historic value. People in Makkah and Taif used the path until 1953 before the construction of the Taif-Makkah Road via Al-Kar.

Tarek bin Mahmoud Khan, acting executive director of SCTA in Taif, said the renovation of the mountainous Al-Kar walkway was one of the commission’s strategic projects

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Note by the editor: Our beloved Prophet Mohammad, Peace be on Him, could have walked up these steps…!