Basilica Complex Paphos

... rich history of this 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 located in central Paphos ...

... my friends.

I try to take as many photos of the area while up here, and my friends are looking for me. I always have to walk much ahead of them as I don’t want them to spoil the photos. Usually I am asked to take them photos, and they stand posing, which is something I want to avoid.

Actually I am trying to find a fine spot, to take a picture of my travelpod pot.

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 ...

... pointed out, the
computer would not have let us check our bags had we not been able
to. This is a valid point and one I will try to remember for future
episodes.

With the bags checked, next was
security. Once we got through security I checked the screen and it
informed me I had to proceed to the gate. In my head this translates
to: You must move as quickly as you can to the gate, the plane is
taking off and you will need ...

... 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 LINK which is located in the middle of the bay and on the sandy beach. The beach at Coral Bay is one of the best in eastern Cyprus. The stunning Thalassa Boutique Hotel LINK is on a peninsula at on end of Coral Bay with sea on three sides. The very stylish suites have views of the sunrise or ...

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 ...

... Kykos we drove on a bit to a little village called Pedolas which has an incredibly old Byzantine church. It also has a musum stuffed full of icons from various local churches. The museum and church are owned and run by people who live in the village and we met a couple of real characters! We drove back to Polis & were back in time for dinner at one of the restaurants in the town. Lovely day!

We drove about 15 mins down the road from Polis to the Akamas Penninsula, a nature reserve / national park. This is where the Baths of Aphrodite are, a pretty little grotto where the Greek Goddess of Love was supposed to come and bathe. We walked on from the Baths to the Aphrodite Trail - a walking route that goes around the whole ...