World’s largest rose carpet ready for Taif festival

Taif Municipality is putting the last touches on the largest rose carpet in the world to be ready in time for the opening of the Taif International Rose Festival on March 31 in King Faisal Park.
Taif Mayor Mohammed Al-Mukharij said, “This year’s rose carpet has over 100,000 roses and flowers covering 750 square meters. It includes more than 15,000 species of flowers of all colors in addition to seedlings of the famous Taif rose.”
A mobile flower carpet will move through the streets, and a bus for children will tour Taif before the start of the festival as an advertisement.
“The municipality’s exhibition will contain new gardens, and there will be a show of plants, some of which are indigenous to Taif,” the mayor added.
In King Faisal Park there will be an aloe vera garden to show the variety of this species that grow in Taif. Replicas of flowers will be presented to children as gifts and there will be kids-sized flower dresses for photography. Old cars have been refurbished for agricultural purposes to preserve the environment and to benefit from anything old.”
“New attractions at this year’s rose festival are a six-meter high flower bridge, an outdoor home garden which aims to teach visitors about how to arrange such gardens and there will be a waterfall of flowers, which consists of 3,000 flowers,” said Al-Mukharij.
He concluded, “There will also be a drawing and coloring competition for small kids. They will receive gifts daily.”