Hotel Club Z 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 ...

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 ...

VISITING NICOSIA (Lefkosia) in Greek

Early this morning after breakfast we are driven to Tymvos War Cemetary.
Later on, we visit the Incarcerated graves found next to the central jail of the city, not very far from the Green Line.

(some history)

It is here that 13 heroes of the EOKA struggle against the British (1955 - 1959) were interred. Nine of them were hanged by the British, three fell on the ...

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I do however know how to admire my friends, and have fun.

Again I want to thank the people from the ATHK choir who did their very best to make our trip to Cyprus unforgettable.
It was fun, and indeed the Greek people left with the best impressions of Cypriot hospitality.

... 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 ...

... above some of our homes, including Norah's Café, we decided, on our esteemed leaders advice, to walk east to west as the route overall would be easier for us in 'our out of condition state'.....what a load of rubbish!!.....it turned out to be the hardest stretch we have done to date but also the most dramatic. After a council of war it was decided to start by climbing up a boulder and scrub strewn extremely steep hillside which ...

... by two nuns from the convent in the village. Walking conditions were perfect as we stepped out through the old village streets and it was here that we somehow managed to add an extra four footed friend to our party in the shape of a friendly and well behaved dog. He kept us company through to the end of the walk where he quietly disappeared. After an uphill climb through the village it was with some relief we ...

... And yet, there was still the old town with beautiful little windy alley ways. But then of course there was the signs of war: sand bags and bullet holes and barbed wire and bunkers. This feeling of a war zone was eery, but not as scary as the fact that this city has three Debenhams. We set out to cross The Green Line - the buffer zone between the two sides which is operated by the United Nations. It's very easy to cross these days, as both Greece and Turkey ...

... ____________________ 11 Oct, Tuesday The public transport system in Cyprus is just so appallingly bad. A whole host of things were summed up by one of the guests in the hostel. "Can you believe that on a Sunday there is no public transport links from the airport to the city centre. There is nothing, not early in the morning, not even at peak times. Nothing. The only way to get there is by ...

... my venture into Bethlehem, but I was sure that it was much much safer. After all, the UN had been there, stabilizing the two sides, for 24 years, and not since had a shot been fired in anger. I was still on the Greek side. A few soldiers were standing around next to a giant tin gate. I walked into the booth to speak to a man sitting behind a large desk. "Hey, I'd like to go to the north" "Why?" He looked up from his newspaper and snorted. "Tourist" It was obvious that it ...