Taif was the summer resort of a previous King. And for that reason, it was the location for the first airport. Sitting on a high plateau, it remains cooler in the summer. The shadow is cast by a cloud.
The landscape has the appearance of a lunar mountain range in places, mountain tops poking out of a primarily dirt plain.
Taif water system is a closed cycle and is one of 20 or so locations in the world which attemps to recycle its entire waste water system.
The foreground is the downtown market area, as viewed from the south.