Crystallo Apartments Paphos

... 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 ...

... west of the monastery, and not far from his native village of Panayia.

The monastery holds religious fairs on September 8th, (Birth of the Virgin) and August 15th (Dormition of the Virgin).



How to get here:

Air: Paphos International Airport.

Road: Road to Pedoulas which leads to Kykkos (from Troodos); road north towards Platres, past Pedoulas to ...

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 ...

... Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka) the Caribbean Islands ( Antigua, Grenada, Nevis, St Kitts, St Lucia and Tobago In July 2008 I visited the island of Cyprus. The island is mountainous and dry, typically Mediterranean, the coastline can be attractive but not all. Some of the coastal towns such as Larnaca and Limassol are quite industrial whereas areas in the west of the island are less so. My favourite part of the island is around the town of Paphos which has been developed ...

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 ...