Napa Prince Hotel Ayia Napa

... which is so near, has changed the whole picture. <br><br>About 200 metres at the back of the Church, there were cliffs and a beautiful little river - I used to call it (my little white river) because the rocks were really white and flat and it was so beautiful! Well nothing is here. It is just the highway below with so much noise and cars going by. <br>What a great disappointment indeed! <br><br><br><br>AN ATTACHMENT<br><br>Some ...

... to mix politics up here in these pages. <br><br><br><br>BEWARE<br><br>AVOID going to ZAKOS Restaurant in the Makenzi area!<br><br><br><br>I would advise tourists &#8211;especially foreigners to avoid eating at&#8211;ZAKOS Beach Restaurant.<br><br>The restaurant is in this area of Makenzi, and we are brought here by the coach driver. It is very late in the afternoon, and we are hungry, after the day trip and tour we ...

... town.<br><br>A large collection of the city's coins minted in the local mint starting with the fist coin in the city Kingdom of Kition of the late 6th century and a fabulous collection of city photographs through the years dating from 1850, are among the most interesting exhibits. <br><br>On the 2nd floor are located the city&#8217;s archives, which are ...

<br><br>THE SALT LAKE OF LARNACA<br><br><br><br>The first site of interest a tourist sees upon arriving is the Salt Lake.<br>Depending on the weather conditions, the view is all the time changing. For instance when the salt lake has water, you can see the mosque reflected in the waters. The view is quite different if it is summer or autumn again. <br><br><br><br>The central salt lake ...

THE HALA SULTAN TEKKE<br><br>Founded in 649 A.D.<br><br><br><br>This historic mosque is just 3 km west of Larnaca very near the airport terminal on the central salt lake.<br><br>Um Haram who was the Aunt of Prophet Mohamed died here as a result of an accident. <br><br>This mosque is now considered to be the fourth most important religious ...

... and Roman times.<br><br><br><br><br><br>TODAY:<br ><br><br><br>I had the chance for the first time in my life, thanks to Lefteris, to get to the top of these &#8211;kamares- and see the gutter pipe where water was flowing providing water to the people those days.<br><br>Now I see that the government has spent a lot of money making this area around here very beautiful ...

... love getting up early in the morning and jog.<br><br>Many find friends and jog together, and you can see the speedy pace people depending on the age here! There are people who just come to walk up and down and cover some miles, others who walk much slower with one or two friends chatting while waling, but there are those ones who are so concentrated on what they are doing that you can see all their passion here.<br ...

... The best surviving examples of this architecture in Larnaca are a) Ieronymos Varlm House on Chryssopolitissa Street, b) Efthimiades House at Nicolaou Laniti Street, c) the Larnaka Club opposite Pierides Museum on Zenonos Kitieos Street. <br><br>Similar buildings survive in the Skala Turkish quarter along Piale Pashia Street.<br><br><br><br>

THE CASTLE OF LARNACA<br><br>(The Medieval Museum of Larnaca found on the 2nd floor of the castle).<br><br><br><br>The earliest reference to the construction of the Larnaca Fort is 1380 A.D. During the Ottoman occupation a new renovation was made dating 1625 A.D. It was used as a prison, as it was during early British rule. It is now used as a local Medieval Museum, and ...

LARNACA MARINA AND THE COLONIAL PIER<br><br><br><br>Just opposite the colonial buildings of Europe Square is the entrance of the Marina, which was built in the early 1970's.<br><br>It used to be a port back in 1879, constructed by the British.<br><br>The walk on ...