Riu Cypria Resort Paphos

... Indian Ocean (Goa, Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka) the Caribbean Islands ( Antigua, Grenada, Nevis, St Kitts, St Lucia, In July 2008 I visited the island of Cyprus. The island is mountainous and dry, typically Mediterranean, the ...

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 ...

<br>Thursday, July 2, 2009&#8212;Paphos<br>This morning we headed over to the Kato<br>Pafos Archaeological Park and checked out the local ruins. After<br>about forty minutes we were too hot and headed back to the car. We<br>proceeded to drive north to the Baths of Aphrodite and from there we<br>deduced that there would be some beautiful coast line in that area<br>and the quickest way would be to follow the inland roads that cut ...

... pointed out, the<br>computer would not have let us check our bags had we not been able<br>to. This is a valid point and one I will try to remember for future<br>episodes. <br><br>With the bags checked, next was<br>security. Once we got through security I checked the screen and it<br>informed me I had to proceed to the gate. In my head this translates<br>to: You must move as quickly as you can to the gate, the plane is<br>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 &amp; 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 ...

... number &amp; we felt happy to drift around the buildings which, although very old, have been 'restored' to within an inch of their lives. It's all pristine &amp; beautifully maintained. Despite being a real tourist spot it is still a working monestary &amp; you do see the monks walking around. The church is spectacular filled with icons, gold &amp; silver and heavy with the smoke of incense. After ...

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 ...

We explored the little town of Polis. It's a sweet place, a tourist town but it wasn't busy &amp; full of people - maybe it was the time of year. The beach isn't great and we didn't stay there long. There are lots of restaurants of various types and budgets. Mariela Apartments suits us down to the ground - I imagine it gets very very busy in-season, but at ...