Location & Climate
Rashin a mountain located in Tulkarm and specifically the high area of Bala in the east of Tulkarem (Rural Tulkarem),
rises the mountain about (600 meters) above sea level, and is thus considered the highest area high in Tulkarem, where
an extension of a series of mountains of the north, called on the mountain Rashin name because there are ancient Roman
ruin him known as the (Khirbat Rashin).
And it extends the length (800 meters) inside the mountain railway tunnel Ottoman train (Hijaz) train, known as the tunnel in
the name of (rags), and built in the Ottoman period during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who ruled in the time period
between (1876 -1909) and was the completion of the tunnel for the railway project in the beginning of the twentieth century,
to facilitate the travel of pilgrims from Palestine and the Levant to the homes of Hijaz sacred in Mecca and Medina, and to
honor this great achievement (the project) has been the establishment of a big celebration in Marjah Square in the Syrian capital
Damascus, and even today sees visiting the scene of a monument to it.
As a result of the high altitude of the mountain, the snow falling and piling in winter of each year where the temperature reaches zero degrees or less, and will visit the people and residents of nearby areas
to play in the snow in winter, and hiking and trekking in the summer and spring, and is considered the mountain site locations a distinctive
and strategically where is the meeting point of several villages and regions as well as can be from the mountain to see the coastal plain
and the Mediterranean very clearly and watch dozens of cities and villages and many areas, it also features mountain nature witch and the
surrounding mountains towering green and fertile land beautiful natural scenery and calm .. and gaining top of the mountain historical
and archaeological interest in being a desolate Roman contain a lot of old monuments, wells, drilling and building the foundations of
the old stones, mass graves and caves and others.