Agia Napa and Protaras

A Beautiful Island

Anna and I spent three days hiking the coastline of Agia Napa and Protaras from Makronissos Beach to Trinity Beach, camping on cliffs and watermelon patches along the way. The area is either natural, or developed with hotels and flooded with tourists from Russia and Northern Europe. We were not able to meet and interview many Cypriots along this stretch, so I’m going to instead share our pictures from this incredibly beautiful coastline. Enjoy!

Ancient Hellenistic and Roman tombs of Makronissos.

Walking the coast.

Shadows are getting long…time to set up camp

Camp sunrise

Sea caves and staircase to the sea from the campsite

Agios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas) Church at the port of Kalamies Beach. St. Nicholas was the patron saint of sailors.

Concrete machine gun post from the conflict of 1974. In the last photo the silhouette of Famagusta, the ghost city, can be seen in the background.