Villa Eleni Polis

... plenty of character, the only thing I would say against it is that it's a bit too British. To the North West of Paphos is the beautiful Coral Bay and to the five star Coral Beach Hotel which is located in the middle of the bay and ...

KYKKOS MONASTERY



The monastery of Kykkos, is the richest and most lavish of the monasteries of Cyprus, found in the region of Marathasa. It is situated on the mountain peak, at an altitude of 1.318 metres northwest of Troodos. It is dedicated to Panagia(Virgin Mary), and was founded sometime between the end of the 11th century, and the beginning of the 12thcentury.


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We stayed in Polis for the morning and left after a last lunch at one of the restaurants in town. We were sorry to leave Polis, it's a lovely little place, so relaxed and quiet, we got very comfortable there! We headed off down to Paphos and looked around the Fort & the ruins of Old Paphos before watching a stunning sunset over the sea, having dinner in the harbour and heading back to the airport to fly home...

We stayed local today, but the beach at Polis isn't that great so we scooted down the road to Latsis and the beach there. Latsis (or Latchi) was once a small village by the sea but now it's enveloped in new developments of holiday villas. It's sort of stretched out along the road with a few restaurants and bars n the middle. The beach is nice if you go to the bit behind the restaurants as the main road ...

Thursday, July 2, 2009—Paphos
This morning we headed over to the Kato
Pafos Archaeological Park and checked out the local ruins. After
about forty minutes we were too hot and headed back to the car. We
proceeded to drive north to the Baths of Aphrodite and from there we
deduced that there would be some beautiful coast line in that area
and the quickest way would be to follow the inland roads that cut ...

... to find it. Once we did, I pulled up front
and parked. I then went to check in. The hotel looked fine, the
Lepota Paphos Garden. It was trying to be a bit resortish with
planned activities, theme nights and a nice pool but that didn't
really appeal to me. I simply wanted to know I had a bed to sleep
in.

Upon returning to the car to move it to
the parking area I couldn't start it. The key was in, the car was in
park and ...

... Mediterranean island, and is unlike the other traditional hotels. The following day I had a busy schedule of visits to the other hotels in our programme starting with the Annabelle LINK located in central Paphos overlooking the bay. This hotel is the best in Paphos Bay, right on the beach and with a selection of rooms and suites with sea view. There is a beautiful swimming pool surrounded by lush gardens and palm trees. Next door the Hotel Almyra LINK is designed in a ...

Having a car we decided to take ourselves off to spend the day at Coral Beach which, we'd heard, was one of the nicest in Cyprus. It's about half-way between Polis & Paphos and took about 45 minutes to drive to. The town wasn't particularly nice, a bit like Blackpool, and we were glad we had decided to stay in Polis (we had been looking at hotels in Coral Beach but they were quite expensive ...

... stopped at an enclosure accomodating some Mouflons - a sheep-goat animal that is apparently unique to Cyprus. They are very shy but we spotted some after a while. We arrived at Kykos for lunch & had a delicious good-value meal at the cafeteria. This place is set up to process coach-loads of tourists. A benefit of coming off-season, there weren't any! There were quite a few people but not a ...

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Two or three times I visited Kakopetria, with the choir, but the coach was so huge that it was not possible to enter the village, so every time I happened to be up here it was just seeing Kakopetria through a distance. So this time I really wanted to WALK THE VILLAGE.



KYKKOS

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We went up to Kykkos Monastery at first, which lies ...