Nicosia, Cyprus Travel Blogs

Pafos to Polis
Mar 18, 2004 (3 photos)

... out and I pass the sign telling me I'm now in Akamas. It is beautiful. I cycle alongside Lara Beach, one of the few in Cyprus where turtles still come ashore to breed. The road again becomes a dirt track and this time its for real. Imagine a road with ...

Nicosia
Mar 21, 2004 (3 photos)

... carriage way, so I pushed the bike under the road bridge along a pebble river bed and got onto the carriageway in the direction I hoped Nicosia was. I found the city easy enough, as ye do, but it was a bit of a mission to find the hostel. It being a ...

IN LIMBO, ON A HOT, DRY ISLAND
Aug 26, 2008 (6 photos)

... side, you can see a sign that reads: "Our Demand - For the Turkish Army and Settlers to Leave Cyprus!" On a pedestrian shopping street in Greek Nicosia, I laid out some of my stories and advertised them at a Euro apiece.  Meanwhile, I sat quietly ...

The Sandbags And The Gladrags
Jul 14, 2006 (7 photos)

... in Dublin, so he and I said goodbye to the new Mrs. Kelly and the rest of my family and caught a bus up to Nicosia (a.k.a. Lefkosia...again with the multiple names). This is the capital of Cyprus and of Northen Cyprus - the only 'divided capital' in the ...

Divided City
Mar 20, 2008 (82 photos)

... had given up. Not long after, well after a Turkish coffee hit, I walked from the country that doesn't exist and into Cyprus   Cypriot Nicosia   The walls here are amazing. First you have barbed wire, and then, as this is a Venetian town, you ...

New Home Sweet Home
Jul 16, 2007

We are home now. If all went well, we arrive in Nicosia on the 16th (15th in Edmonton).

Good times in Ayia Napa
Aug 25, 2003 (7 photos)

... 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 ...

Cyprus
Jun 10, 2008 (16 photos)

... disembarking the Ferging ferry in Northern Cyprus with shouts of glee and wails of excitement, we hitched a ride to Nicosia and crossed over onto the Greek side to meet my cousin Simon, his lovely wife Clare and adorable son Leo.& ...

Setting Off
May 10, 2005 (4 photos)

... will take me through all the cities and countries I have lived in my life- Houston, Washington DC, Bishkek, Kuala Lumpur, Nicosia and, unofficially, London. That was not the initial goal but it works out that way. Friends and circumstance attract me back ...

INTERESTING SPOTS IN NICOSIA
Oct 29, 2009 (69 photos)

... lunch. We walk as far as the old town of – Laiki Yitonia, and also come to the green line that separates Cypriot Nicosia with the Turkish. The site below has every detail of the places we visited today, and a little about the history.  I believe ...

Snow at last! Then a sobering reality check.
Jan 8, 2007 (19 photos)

... ) due to the fact that in 1974 Cyprus was invaded by Turkey, who took over and occupied almost 40% of Cyprus which includes part of the city of Nicosia. The UN sent in a Peace Keeping Force, which is still in place today, and they established a "buffer/no- ...

TRADITIONAL DANCING IN CYPRUS-videos
Oct 31, 2009 (5 photos)

TRADITIONAL DANCERS This will give you an idea of what happens at a traditional Cypriot dinner party. After the festival, we have a dinner party, all the choirs together. Cypriot traditional dancers open the programme, and finally we are all dancing and ...

Feeling hot, hot hot.
Sep 16, 2006

Made it. A fairly painless flight apart from the expected scrums at check-in and the uber-serious security; my bag went through so many x-ray machines this morning that its still glowing slightly. Discovered an interesting Russian currency trick at ...

Cyprus Trip
Apr 16, 2008

Nicosia is only city with 2 governments. The northern part is a Cypriot-Turkish Territory and Southern is a Greek-Cypriot Territory. Not a place for sight seeing.

Limassol and Nicosia
Nov 4, 2009 (4 photos)

... a centre for the cult of the Greek goddess Aphrodite and we saw a beautiful 1st century BC marble statue of her at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. No pix allowed but I bought the postcard ! On the way to Nicosia, we drove past citrus and olive groves, ...

Its not longer Greeks or Turks that run this place
Oct 20, 2008

... in a resort hotel in the city of Limmosal.  Toured the entire island except for the Turkish portion on the top third of Cyprus. Most of the tourist signs are in 1) Greek 2) Russian and last but not least 3) English. This island is certainly a great ...

Euro Cup/Class
Jun 21, 2008

Watching the euro cup in Europe is definitely an experience.

Cyprus, My first abroad :)
Oct 12, 2008

It was nice...

Fantastic Holiday with www.my-holidayrental.com
Nov 7, 2009

... so easy to use and it has not got so many properties that you lose your way but its got enough to pick from I picked Cyprus and called a really nice gentleman that owned the villa we booked and our holiday was my best ever, I will try Spain next and will ...

last day in nicosia
Sep 9, 2007 (12 photos)

hi there well what have we been up to in nicosia over the last couple of days,  we have visited the local shopping strips, been to the bazaar and mixed with the locals, caught up with family including my mums aunty who has an uncanny resemblance to ...

Nicosia, Cyprus
Feb 15, 1999

Arrival in Cyprus.

weer bij M&K
Oct 20, 2003

Ochtend zoeken naar ontbijt, heel eind lopen! Daarna uitrusten op stil strand waar we eerder met M geweest waren. tegen eind van de middag terug naar Nicosia

Turkey..Yes, Turkey
Jul 4, 2009

... abounded demonstrating new agreements and a desire to preserve the past. We came upon the top site in Northern Nicosia, the Selimiye Mosque which combines medieval Christian architecture with Islamic influence to create a most stunning Mosque. While ...

Nicosia, Cyprus
Jun 27, 1999

Returned to Cyprus with Adrian.

Just What I Was Looking For
Sep 30, 2009 (23 photos)

... option on this island for the Ryanair crowd like me!    Forty-five minutes later I was in downtown Nicosia (Lefkosa locally in Greek), and realized the importance of this place shortly after arrival.  A political division and its ...

First entry in Cyprus
Aug 12, 2007

This is the first entry in this blog, and unfortunatly it comes while I am in Cyprus. The heat has continued these past days after a surprising 2 days of cool. Last week the news paper said that the heat index (heat + humidity) topped out one day at 51°C ( ...

Previous Trips
Dec 9, 2007

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Cyprus - end of cruise
Aug 25, 2007

Back to Cyprus, end of cruise.

Ev!t@k!
May 28, 2009

hi se olus

Update
Aug 20, 2007

Cyprus is hot. Anyone thinging to come here, well, thing again! Especially not in the summer. The water is nice though. Great for snorkelling, and hopefully SCUBA diving. Planning on our return to New Jersey, this time via Zurich and Milan. Sounds fun, ...