Lefkosia (Nicosia)

Travel Blogs from Lefkosia (Nicosia), Cyprus

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Good times in Ayia Napa, Lefkosia (Nicosia), Cyprus travel blog

Good times in Ayia Napa

A travel blog entry by pharpas

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... lot more stressful and on the go). I am living with my cousins Mario and Rita in Lefkosia which is the capital of Cyprus (aka Nicosia). Lefkosia is located towards the centre of the island and is home to about 200,000 people. It has the unenviable legacy ...

Lefkosia/Nikosia - still divided..., Lefkosia, Cyprus travel blog

Lefkosia/Nikosia - still divided...

A travel blog entry by ulka

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... has an abundance of museums, galleries, ancient churches, historical buildings, handicrafts places. There is a Green Line which divides Lefkosia - Cyprus side, pretty modern even though in the old town and Turkish side with mosques and old town, bit run ...

Meze dinner, Lefkosia, Cyprus travel blog

Meze dinner

A travel blog entry by kwhitaker

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(February 26th) The day after we went to the old city for our tour, we went back for a traditional Meze dinner. Meze is small plates of many different types of foods. We went to a place called Xefoto with my roommates, one of the girls that lived across ...

scavenger hunt and cooking class, Lefkosia, Cyprus travel blog

scavenger hunt and cooking class

A travel blog entry by kwhitaker

(February 27th) Today we listened to a lecture about the Cypriot problem and attend a cooking class. The cooking class was taught by a local chief who is the head of the culinary arts program here at the university and who went to school at Johnson and ...

First Tour of the

First Tour of the "Old City"

A travel blog entry by kwhitaker

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Today the Global Learning Semesters (GLS) went to Lefkosia or the "Old City." It was build many moons ago and used to (and still is) a town surrounded by a giant (i mean 150 feet thick) brick wall. It is located right by the green line which is where the ...

first museum, Lefkosia, Cyprus travel blog

first museum

A travel blog entry by kwhitaker

(February 28th) Today we went to the Cyprus museum. We had a tour guide and went through the museum in about an hour, which was not a lot of time. She taught us about the goddess of fertility and how many think it's in the shape of the cross, but ...

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