The trip to Fifa, the “neighbor of the moon” as some like to describe it, mixes between pleasure and adventure. Fifa Mountain, in addition to being a mountain of fabulous splendor and beauty, is fraught with surprise and excitement, through its towering roads that penetrate the peaks to rise above the clouds, as well as the steep slopes that It arouses the appetite of adventure lovers from its visitors through those winding roads on the edges of the mountains.
Mount Fifa, which rises about 1,800 meters above sea level, consists of a series of peaks of varying heights, the most famous of which is the Al-Absiyya summit. It is also surrounded by Wadi Damad and Wadi Jura in the north and west. This region is distinguished by its moderate climate throughout the year, and the “Saudi Summer” season (breathe) succeeded in unveiling this fictional city.
popular sites
The “Samaa” site is considered one of the most beautiful and famous sites in the Fifa Mountains, through which you can overlook the “Al-Athr” spot with charming views, and from this site you overlook Al-Nafia’a, Wadi Al-Hajouri and Al-Dafrah, and from there you can see the neighboring mountains and plains areas, and you can also see the cities of “Jazan, Sabya, and Abu Arish,” the dam of Wadi Jizan, Al-Ardah, and other sites.
Al-Absiyya is the highest peak in the Fifa Mountains and overlooks most parts of the mountains and from all sides. As for Al-Khatm, it is a site located in the Haidan spot, and from it you can see the Belghazi mountains, terraces, and farms.
A special agricultural calendar
The Fifa region is famous for many crops that residents used to grow in the plains and mountains, such as grains, fruits, vegetables, aromatic plants, and others. Coffee (coffee) is considered one of the most important and best agricultural crops, because Fifa is in the heart of the land of Khawlan, which is famous for its high-quality coffee.
Each agricultural work in Fifa has its own calendar and a specific season that the farmers there know, and they set a precise time for it, from plowing the land to hoeing the herbs, planting trees, sowing the fruits, harvesting them, and so on. Some of the peasants in it know the calculation of astronomical phases with inherited experience, and some of them work in an observatory in their house that monitors the phases of the sun, by making lines in a wall into which the sun’s rays enter from a window at sunrise or sunset, and makes for each rank an ocean in which the sun’s rays creep from its beginning to its end within 13 A line is written in it for each day, and by means of it the sun is known in which position it is, and how many days a segment of it, and it goes forward 14 stages in this pattern and returns 14 stages backward during the year, and they call that a “stagnation”, and they have an accurate calendar for that.
Uniqueness and privacy
One of the uniqueness of the heritage in Fifa is that they used to choose for each house a name of its own that distinguishes it and its people, so this house is like a flag from the flags, so that people are known by the name of their house, and it is rare for the name of two houses to be repeated throughout the mountain, and in most cases this name is either An adjective or a noun for a specific occasion or because of a specific incident.
Also, one of the uniqueness of the architectural heritage in Fifa is that most of its houses were characterized by a circular (cylindrical) shape, which is something that does not exist in any other region, and also from the uniqueness of this region is that the people of the Fifa Mountains have their own dialect that only they understand, and no one else can speak it. The researchers found that most of the vocabulary of this dialect belongs to the origins of the ancient classical Arabic language, but it was affected in its dialect by the ancient Himyarite language that they spoke. Perhaps that is the secret of some special terms that are only mentioned there.
Okaz (FIFA)
