Cyprus

Wall

The last place we visited in the tour to Northern Cyprus was the wall in Famagusta. The wall at the end of the row of houses in this photo is the one….

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Mosque Which Looks Like a Church

We visited Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, inside the wall in Famagusta in Cyprus. I could not believe it was a mosque as the building was nothing but a Gothic church. I have…

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Ghost Town

There is a ghost town in Famagusta in northern Cyprus, not in the old town withing the wall, but outside of it. Before the Turkish invasion in 1974, nearly 40,000 Greek Cypriots…

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Quickly Visited Salamis

During our individual tour into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, we visited the ruins of Salamis. People lived here as early as the 12th century BC and now you can see…

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Cypriot Matter

On the next day, we had an individual tour to go to Northern Cyprus. At the end of the day, we felt it was too expensive, but at least we learned a…

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Quiet Tourist Destination

According to our guide book, the town of Polis, situated near the west end of Cyprus, seemed like a fairly large tourist town. But when we went there, we found it a…

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Simple Village

After a good lunch in Latchi in Cyprus, we went inland to a village called Neokhorio. Our guide book says ‘attractive stone houses overlooking a gorge’. Both the taxi driver and the…

Latchi

Feeling Happy With Good Seafood

We went to a restaurant listed in our guide book in the small fishing village of Latchi in Cyprus. There were not many tourists around at this time of the season and restaurants…