Club Acapulco Kyrenia

KAKOPETRIA VILLAGE

This beautiful village is just 15 km from Mount Olympus.

It is a very popular summer resort, but during winter is also popular with skiers, and people who come here to relax for the weekend and walk in the beautiful natural trails found in the area.

Kakopetria is divided into two parts; the original, medieval settlement which is situated on the east bank of ...

... and enjoying this evening late until wee hours of the morning.

It is much fun, and it is here that I have the chance to meet people from the Cypriot choir and have time to chat.

A successful festival night ends here.

... quite late and we have free time for our 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 it has every detail a tourist might need to know before getting to the Island.

http://www.windowoncypru s.com/nicosia.htm

OUR PARTY IN KAKOPETRIA



I just want to show here, how Cypriots dance and have fun.

Of course I hate loud music, but I hate that I cannot dance all these dances that you see here. This is from our party in the lodge where we are staying, just outside the village, just 3 km from Kakopetria ...

... the Greek flag.

The streets are bedecked with flags, people wearing their formal clothes, parents with their younger children, all waiting for the parade to come, to admire their children, and feel this unique moving moment.

We are out in the streets and free to have a stroll in this beautiful picturesque village of Lefkara. My Greek friends are interested to see this popular embroidery, others want to visit the museum ...

... it often gets into the 90+ degF temperatures (sorry you lot back in the UK!). The trail started on quite a wide track leading uphill and on top petering out into a narrow path past a rocky outcrop and then down to Vyran Kalise - a small church beside an ancient spring, now dry, and an old protected tree (Cypressus sempervirens var.horizontalis). We met another group of walkers and got chatting to a ...

... obligatory photograph after a walk of 3+ hours. We then drove back along the route to retrieve the 2nd car, and descended via the old Baspinar Road, which though shorter, was not to Foggy's liking! So, back to Ivy's for a welcome cup of tea and piece of Foggy's birthday cake,- he now having attained senior citizen status, and taken the combined ages of the group to about 340+.

... which was already in full swing by the time we arrived at dusk. Gussied up Europeans strolled the brightly lit streets lined with swank eateries, and cars backed up for blocks, waiting for the procession of people. Our final day with wheels, we set out by following Yiannis, Svete, Vega and Mira into the Troodos Massif, Cyprus' largest mountain range. As we climbed, the temperature dropped dramatically, a blessed relief, since temps had topped 104F the previous days. We ...

... Imagine walking down Oxford street in London only to come across large wall half way down. You then have to travel outside of the city centre, show your passport, change money to a different currency, learn a different language and travel back to the other side of the wall to continue up the high street. This is the reality of Nicosia. I started off my tour of the city on the north side. Being a Sunday it ...

... that." "Yeah. I know." I typed cringing at what the cheesy day trip would be like. -- Cyprus had been populated for centuries and it's prime location in the Mediterranean made a juicy target for many ambitious empires. The day trip I had planned was one of those package deals which I typically tended to despise, but I didn't have much choice. "Good morning everybody!" the bus driver announced through the bus' speaker system in an annoying sing-song way like a kindergarten ...