Cyprus geology 1

Large rocks at Petra tou romiou (rock of the greek ) site

Peyia's sea caves

Avakas gorge at Akamas-paphos

Petra tou romiou (rock of the greek)

Shell fossils in the walls of Ladopouli cave, at Anogyra, paphos

Koulas at Alaminos, Larnaca

"Koulas" is considered as a 15th century structure and is an oblong, parallelepiped, stone-made castle. It was used by the village's inhabitants, during the old times, so as to observe their enemies coming from the sea and confront them. It was a significant structure for the village's inhabitants, since there were underground tunnels and paths that led from the village to the sea.

 ^ you can see how the enntrance is actually high from the ground

 ^bird's nest

Tiny Marina chapel at Mesa Potamos

Saw this tiny chapel on my way to the Mesa Potamos picnic site

Panayia Plataniotissa

small chapel of Panayia (virgin Mary) Plataniotissa at Platania picnic area

Limassol's flower festival

"Yermasoyia celebrates the arrival of springtime with its annual flower market on Saturday and Sunday, at the Yermasoyia river banks (in Yermasoyia tourist area) and spectacular parade of flower decorated floats (on Sunday, at 6 pm in Georgios A’ Avenue, Yermasoyia tourist area)."

unfortunately, in order to "Save money", this year's flower festivaldidn't include a parade and the festival itself was a couple of stores in the germasoyia parking. So the pictures are from previous years

chirokitia fire aftermath

at 19 june of summer 2013, a huge fire broke out at chirokitia village/area. Houses and lives were in danger and the ancient site as well. As you drive from larnaca to limassol you can even see where the fire crossed the street

http://www.sigmalive.com/news/local/51376

these pictures were taken at 24 of the month

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The neolithic unesco site also got threatened

the entire mountain

 the river bed

the gorge got burned as well

flowers of Cyprus part 1

Amathus gate cemetery at Kourion

for information:
http://php.indiana.edu/~cparks/web/home.html

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/43818400/excavations-kourions-amathus-gate-cemetery

Found at the bottom of a beautiful limestone cliff, right below the kourion ancient site.

The Amathus Gate cemetery. Stone-cut cists, used for small numbers of burials, are cut into the heavily quarried site of older chamber tombs, the arcosolia of which are visible in the background

Limassol carnival parade part 1

Every spring, one day before the Green Monday, there is a carnival parade. From the cities of Cyprus, Limassol is known for the biggest parade