10 things that should not be done in Cyprus

For advanced air passengers, they told what things should be avoided in Cyprus if you want only positive memories for recreation.

Perhaps this summer you will go on to relax in Cyprus. Perhaps even for the first time. And even if not for the first time, our tips can be useful for you. We have collected 10 things that can not be done in Cyprus: it will not be the best spending time and money. And each, of course, is an alternative.

So, being in Cyprus, do not:

Buy cheese halami in supermarkets at the hotel

Khalumi can be frying in a pan, and on the grid. Take a packed in the film Cheese - no problems

And in general in supermarkets in tourist areas. He is there quite expensive and often cheap - in the sense that the cow's milk is added in the halami to reduce costs, while the real is prepared only from goat and sheep milk. In hotels, by the way, it is frowning often wrong, thin slices - so it seems that the portion is more. In fact, the correct thickness is around a centimeter.

For real halami, you can go, for example, on a donkey farm in the vicinity of Ayia Napa. No, it does not mean that there is a donkey milk in it, it's just a funny tourist attraction on the "rustic" subject. Included in the program riding on an archery of rough terrain at first glance gives a terry pop, but actually impressive even those who have always been indifferent to "ride a horse".

Try to penetrate

Varosha is an abandoned resort on the demarcation line between the Republic of Cyprus and the unrecognized territory pressed by the Turks. Photos on the Internet attract lovers of postpocalyptic landscapes, but in fact the "object" is well guarded by the Turkish military, who is there, by the way, and he is semiably rest, so that unnoticed to get there.

If you need to "just look" - this can be done, firstly, during the sea walk from Ayia Napa: the steaming is suitable rather close, everyone is given binoculars, and the line gradually destructive hotels along the beach can be studied in detail. Secondly, almost the "border" (the Greeks-Cypriot did not consider it, because the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" is considered a temporarily occupied territory, approximately as Crimea Ukrainians) there is a museum of occupation, from the roof of which everything is also perfectly visible in binoculars, And here it will tell about what happened in 1974.

Varosha from the Museum of Occupation. Take binoculars - and go ahead

Thirdly, if you have a walk on crises, then it looks more interesting Berengaria's hotel in the western part of the island, where you can call on the road to Kickkos Monastery, and also instead of the monastery.

PPC on the "border" in Famagusta

Ride at the rolling machine on the skuffing beach

This mosaic at Larnaca Airport is actually taken out of an abandoned Nicosia airport. Compared with the version of 1967, not all fragments have been preserved

Lara Beach is a worthy visit. It's not a fact that you will see the sea turtles, which are laying there eggs, but the place itself is quiet, deserted and amazingly pure even by the standards of Cyprus, where the purity of the beaches is one of the main advantages for holidaymakers. However, if you go there on a rolling passenger car, then, firstly, you will go for a very long time. Secondly, there is a risk of proportion of road rubber about sharp stones on the road (and this is the road without a covering, passing mainly on the rocky soil).

On the beach you will most likely see only the fences around the turtle nests. Big turtles sail to postpone the eggs at night, and small turtles, as you understand, hatch either not every day, and hatching, immediately crawl to the sea and float

Thirdly, even frank off-road in the Russian understanding (swamp) there is no, but on the irregularities of the road it is easy to attach a bumper, a threshold or silencer of small trains, for which then you have to pay. An alternative is the so-called jeep safari. From safari, of course, one name, but on the shop in the trunk of "Defender" to go somehow colorful. The main thing is, if the jeeps in your group are more than one - to grasp the first jeep, for in the second heightened dust. By the way, choose trips to stop in Avakas's gorge along the road: these are indescribable in the form of text, photo or video Natural beauty (and there is no crowd of tourists).

Share at the coast of Ayia Napa

Specially posted the most ugly photo from the gorge so that you go and watched everything with our own eyes

It will always be crowded here in the worst sense of the word: crowds of holidaymakers will lie literally under your windows, music from beach bars will constantly play music, and the people in the sea will be like in Simeiz.

Ayia Napa

Removed the number with your own terrace on the seashore in Ayia Napa? Well done, your territory is limited to the paved platform

For a quiet relaxing holiday, it is better to go to Paphos (we were in the Coral Beach Hotel and Resort: a great place, albeit a bit old-fashioned), and if you are in the eastern part of the island, that is, it makes sense to settle down from the sea.

In Coral Beach in Paphos, quiet and smooth. Save from noisy crowd needed here

In the end, you do not run between the sea and the number there and come here, and come for a few hours. And if so, then the hotel can be reached in a few minutes on free shuttle. Yes, and the beaches that such shuttles go are not so crowded. An example of a good hotel of this type - St. Elias Resort, Here you will live in small houses instead of multi-storey buildings, there are swimming pools with slides and, most importantly, the cute Russian heart of Ultra All Inclusive, which is generally rare for Cyprus. What is surprising, the Russians in the hotel are not enough - mostly the British.

St. Elias Resort is pools among two-story houses on a large area, just a half hundred numbers and many pools. In some houses there are own.

Four in tourist restaurants on the shore

Kleftico cooking furnace

This, however, the Captain Council is obvious, but, damn it, you go - and there are people sitting there and they are not clear what. What do you need to eat in Cyprus? First, look for places where Kleftico is prepared is lamb, stewed in special chains in a special oven so long that loses the characteristic taste of lamb and melts in the mouth; In the tourist areas, it is difficult to find them, restaurants are located in places of concentration of the local population.

Another mandatory program is a mez. Mesé is fish and meat, the second is more characteristic of Cyprus. The point is that alternately one for one bring tiny portions of various dishes: ideologically similar to Spanish tapas, but here most dishes are hot. Ideally, to drink all the local wine, for which it stands, by the way, visit the Kolios winery, where the mese (meat) is also served. Wine Persefoni Local Spill of 5 euros per bottle is worth buying it as much as you can take.

Grape grows on limestone; Limestone during the rains is impregnated with water, and this is enough to feed bushes; Optional nobody wipes anything. Therefore, there is less water in a berry, and therefore, wine has a more rich taste

And if you want a fish meze and still on the shore, it is at least one time to go to Sailor's Rest on the territory of St. Raphael Resort in the vicinity of Limassol.

This ocean liner on the shore is not really a liner, but a restaurant. Darling, but worth it.

Ride a source of aphrodite
There is no other source of Aphrodites for you

No, if you live quite nearby, you can go and go, but in general you are most likely disappointed. The "source" is a small puddle in the grotto, along the walls of which water flows. You can't swim there, drink water - too, in one word, just a beautiful legend from the authors of the guidebooks, who needed to write even at least something.

And by the way, here you can fuse to the rock

But if you still went to the direction, then you know that in close proximity to the source there is a fairly interesting dendropark, and also a beautiful wild pebble beach, where there is never people. True, note that you have to first descend along the winding ladder from a high cliff, and then it is rising back.

Put vodka pelicans on the embankment in Paphos

Alas, this idiotic entertainment is characteristic only for Russo Tourist. With pelicans, it is better to just take pictures, but in general, since you are on the embankment, then go look at the ancient mosaics.

Even if you all heart hate museums and all these millennial antiquities, and your favorite entertainment - the TV show "Dom-2", then you can still say at least to say: "Gee-Gee, Swastika!", Because a characteristic ornament is repeated in most These mosaics. At the same time you will tell you that he has nothing to do with the prohibited symbolism if you did not know.

Buy adapter for british outlets

Yes, the sockets in Cyprus others. This is not Greece (not to be confused with Crete), and the former British colony, and the sockets here are English. In the store with you will be able to take it and 5, and 10, and 20 euros - depending on the brand's promotion, but in fact it you do not need.

First, in decent hotels, the adapter hire. Somewhere even without collateral, and somewhere take 5 euros. Secondly, even if the adapter was not given to you, there is a Lifehak: in the central hole we insert any kind item (for example, a rod from the handle, cotton wand, etc.), thereby opening the curtains of the main contacts.

Insert the usual EuroVilka in them, pull the auxiliary item. In order not to be melted in this way every time, take with you the simplest extension cake with you. Alas, a number of hotels still have outlets of the old British standard BS 546 with round holes; Eurovinki do not fit into them, and the adapter is difficult to find (so, again, do not buy an adapter).

Buy something in duty-free at Larnaca Airport

Some drinks in duty can be taste free for free, but in homeopathic doses

All local products are much more expensive than in ordinary stores. Foreign drinks generally also do not differ cheap.

Watch it better for non-food products - glasses, perfume, etc., you can drink in the business hall, where, by the way, there is a beautiful terrace, from where you can look at the aircraft (and there is still allowed to smoke).

Terrace in Larnaca Airport Business Hall, where you can smoke.

This is not the whole choice of alcohol in the LCA business room.

To look at the aircraft, by the way, you can from McCenzie Beach near the airport: little people, pleasant sand, swim right under Glisad, and the end of the band literally goes to the beach. Just do not fit close to the client of the airport: the car with protection approaches from the other side very quickly, and from it look at you with a dumb neighbor.

Ride the season yourself to save

Fresh 737-800 "Russia" fly to Cyprus, there are no more cars and years

Many consider batch tours evil and do not want to feed tour operators, but it is not about Cyprus and not about the season. Yes, all hotels can be booked through the "buquins" or "islands", and tickets to buy yourself, but it will be more expensive. For understanding: Cypriot hotel gives the numbers to the tour operator about twice as cheaper than exposes their "retail" online agencies.

Even taking into account the margins of the tour operator, at the price of the room with an independent organization of the trip, you will get at least a free ticket, and a good airline. The main tour operator is "Biblio-Globe", it cooperates with "Russia", which flies to Cyprus mainly on fresh Boeing 737-800 and, by the way, it is completely thoroughly feeding (plus you can order an additional food).

Standard bort cost of satisfying, albeit without delight, you can order an additional charge for extra charge if you fly from Moscow

From the regions, this is generally almost a non-alternate version; Regular flights will, as a rule, with a transfer in Moscow, and percentage of a decent carrier can give almost the cost of a batch tour. Do not forget about the transfers included in the tour.

Airplane "Russia" in Larnaca

Taxi in Cyprus is expensive (from Larnaca to Paphos, for example, 100 euros), and when renting cars, keep the movement of left-sided, that is, the tissue cars. Accordingly, the cheapest options with the manual transmission, where the transfer will need to be switched with your left hand, you are hardly suitable.

In a number of hotels from Biblio Globus, there are even a separate children's animation in Russian.

At Larnaca Airport for Russian flights, there are many racks at once: the airport is trying so that you do not stand in the queues, and the money went to spend faster.