About the island of Cyprus can only speak in excellent form. The story turns out complete pathos, more like a certain advertising text. By the way, the word Paphos, Cyprus, comes from the name of the city of Paphos, his screaming luxury. I will try to hide emotions away to keep informativeness and, again it will not roll to solid exclamations.
In Cyprus, for tourists from Russia, amazing everything, starting from the organization of the road, a reverent attitude to the monuments of the antiquity, to their measured and calm lifestyle. There is even a manner of pet domestic cattle different. It means that all this is to see with your own eyes, you need to visit here, become the same fan of Cyprus. Arriving, you wonder the purity of the sand of the beaches, the blue of the sea, is sure that you want to visit and some historical and entertainment places. Just look at the island from the excursion bus window. So, about some excursions from Protaras.
Excursions Your guides should offer a lot. My wife and We are in two visits to the island, managed to ride a little, I will try to share memories. The most memorable is the Wine Festival in Limassol. The first time we went in July, and the festival was held in early September. So, we managed to only hear the stories of few lucky ones who visited it. The festival has no clear date of holding, so this in advance should be asked. In 2013, he passed from August 29 to September 8. We specifically attached time to get to it. For information, one is an important item. In the days of the festival there are a lot of wishing to have fun. Their basic influx falls on the opening and closing of the festival, it is by stories. We went from 4 to September 5. Why, where did we sleep? The festival is not going to sleep, but "Festival". So we did not sleep, but walked all evening and all night, and, imagine, not tired. A little about the actual. Buses in Limassol stop at a special platform. Already with her seventer statue of Victa, the perpetrator of the holiday, the Cyprus of the winemaking is visible. Already from the window of the bus felt the raised, festive atmosphere. Announces time collection, warn that you can use the bus to relax. And, forward!
The park is filled with people, Cyprus music sounds from everywhere. Interesting platforms of Cypriot wine and sowing manufacturers, it is something mean between Calvados and Rom. You will be treated in reasonable limits on each such site. And, although there are many such sites, you will not bexicate, but only raise the mood. Closer to night the sky is illuminated by fireworks, it becomes more fun. The people are already sailing in a chamber with grapes. You can try national dishes made not at the hotel or cafe, but from products from the mountain Vinogradar settlements, and cooked in your eyes. If you are ready to go to the festival, prepare. I call some prices, I can make a little mistaken. Entry ticket - for adults - 6E, adolescents - 4E, plastic bottle 1.5l. - 1E, plastic cup 0.5l. - 1E, wine glass 0.6l. - 2E. On the thematic sites, you will show you the process of manufacturing and storing wines and stronger drinks with tasting. It's time to you on the bus, and the festival continues.
Yes, and other excursions are also interesting. In walking distance, in the city, on a high grief, there is a temple of St. Ilya. There are a large number of steps, I do not call them quantity, because when climbing and descent, they need to be considered. The difference will make up the number of serious sins for life. I am very advised to bow to Saint Ilya, in the Holy Inzen Church, the patron of the Russian blue beretov - to its brothers in the Airborne Forces. And climb, remembering those for whom already, not rattling, does not ring ...
As a rest, the adviser on the boat is in the blue lagoon. The pier in Protaras one and impossible to miss. The cost of a 4-hour walk + drinks - 10E. Tickets sell, right at the box office pier, it is better to buy in advance. If there is binoculars, take.
You will swim in view of the Turkish part of Cyprus. Missed to see a dead city, it is also called the Ghost City - Famagusta. It is interesting to consider it in binoculars, but on the boat he is alone, and literally, tourists are torn away from each other. This city, with whole buildings, even now live, only empty. Beaches are wedged with barbed wire. So the Turks ordered the captured part of the island. In the Blue Bay, you are near you will see our "friends" on NATO, the French military base of radio-electronic intelligence, currently, leased by the British. Sweep the shore is prohibited, but 45 minutes will be allocated for swimming.
It's nice to swim under NATO's nose, raise the face to their reconnaissance antennas. Yes, and the tan of the walk will remain special, marine.