By Koruçam Burnu (Cape Kormakiti)
The area around the layer near the light it used to be military and prohibited, but was demilitarized few years ago and is now approachable.The description here begins with a brief description of the route westward Vouni then gives details Site Vouni from working backward and eastward towards Kyrenia. Since in all of northern Cyprus, the roads are in Good Condition, and there is happily little traffic. Cities are clearly marked, as are the sights.The road first follows the thin coastal strip of 20 km (12 miles) or less, before it starts to rise, and continental winds through the wooded slopes.
Leaving the valley, has a beautiful view below to a new dam, one of many that the Cypriots in the north being built to utilize water that is lost in a moment after a heavy downpour: no river flows in Cyprus throughout the year and Water is a scarce resource. For most of next year from the mains for only two hours a day in July and August and sometimes not at all. Residents and Hotels to get around this, with very large tanks on the roof.
At the top of the climb is reached CAML? Bel, a town heavily garrisoned, where there is an important fork in the road: straight on to Lefko? a, and the right to Güzelyurt and Lefkada. The right path is the one you need to take to visit Pighades, only 2 km (1 mile or less) away on the return trip, but for now, fork right.
Leaving CAML? Bel on top of the hill, the road descends into the adjacent valley. Güzelyurt is at the heart of the vast floodplain and fertile, the center of the citrus groves of the island and a fine pink Steam Engine just to the left road Güzelyut announces his arrival. This curiosity is a leftover of the line built by the British used to run Gazima? U.S. through Lefko? R to Morphou.
The train last ran in 1951. Continuing along the main road, you reach the city center, with the unmistakable Byzantine dome of the Mamas church Ayias and m? Cipal museum next to it, both set in the center of a huge roundabout. The forks on the left of the roundabout to drive back to the Lefko? A, but you go straight, following signs for Lefkas.
From Güzelyurt the drive through lush plantations, take a half hour to get to the bar Güzelyurt Körfezi (Marphou Bay), with its distinctive iron piers, relics of copper mining operations. Ships to tie together these docks and loaded with copper for export, mainly to West Germany. Copper was the most important natural resources of Cyprus and the Greek name for it, Küpros is intended to be taken from the name of the island.
Cyprus is renowned in antiquity for its copper supply and producting the Egyptian pharaohs more than any other country Mediterranean. The rich mines here Mavrovouni Skouriotissa and worked first by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but after that were in disuse for centuries, until it was reopened in 1923. The Cyprus Mines Corporation, a U.S. team, worked in the mines to the partition, when the mineral was nearly exhausted anyway. Their supervisors are amazed at the extent of the Roman excavations and the depth of its galleries and wells, especially in light of the lack of ventilation. Slaves were used, of course, to work in mines, so the safety standard just one consideration. In Roman times in Palestine, Christians who refused to resign their faith were also sent to the mines.
Careful observation will reveal that the landscape consists largely of slag Romans, is said to have left more one million tonnes of slag behind. 'Our Lady of the heap "is a rough translation of Skouriotissa.
Shorty after the mining sites, but before Yedidalga village, the Roman Theater and the Basilica of Soli is located on a hill about 200 meters inland from the road, marked as usual with one of the tourists yellow clear signs of service. Vouni also 8 km (5 miles) west along the coast road, is clearly signposted.
First, the road passes through a cl? Ster beach restaurant west of Solis, where you can eat and bathe before promotion abrupt starts the payment of a huge outcrop of hills on the edge of the sea. Vouni Palace Hotel is located at the top of this outcrop. The last three minutes throughout a narrow path. If you do not have a strong nerve, but my legs are strong enough, it's only 15 minutes walk from the ruins of the diversion, where you can leave your car.
Near the foot of the hill, by the way, halfway between Solis and Vouni is the shell of a modern Greek church, built in a very protected the right corner of the road but badly destroyed inside. Never seems to have been completed and is covered inside and out with the exhortation vain "Please keep clean. Most the mosque in Cyprus are Greek, by contract, kept locked and clean, but the record is poor for tolerance on both sides: 117 mosques were destroyed between 1955 and 1974 by Greek Cypriots zeal.
At the foot of the hill Vouni, the road continues west to the town of Ye? il? rmak, beyond which is another restaurant simple beach. This is the westernmost point can be reached before the edge of northern Cyprus territory, although about 8 km (5 miles) west, inaccessible and surrounded by territory Greek Cyprus is the Turkish Cypriot Erenköy curios pocket. Today, troops live only in this fiercely Turkish Cypriot enclave, all the original settlers have been evacuated to Yem Erenköy in the Karpas peninsula. These villagers had bravely resisted an attack by General Grivas and 3,000 Greek soldiers in 1964 and were supported in their struggle for student volunteers who included a young Rauf Denktas, TRNC President today.
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