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Cyprus Nature Trails
Akamas / Troodos / Kavo Gkreko
hiking
CYPRUS
Nature Trails
Production
Department of Forests - Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment
Text
Takis Tsintides, Andreas Nearchou, Takis Papachristoforou, Costas loannou, Chrysostomos
Chrysostomou, Kyriaki Demetriou and Michael Loizides
Text processing
Kyriaki Demetriou
Translation
Demetra Orthodoxou
Photographs
Charalambos Christodoulou, Chrysostomos Chrysostomou, Costas loannou, Irodotos
Kaouris, Savvas Kazafaniotis, Thomas Kyriakou, Costas Logginos, Andreas Nearchou, Charis
Nicolaou, Takis Papachristoforou, Constantinos Papasavvas, Minas Papadopoulos and Takis
Tsintides and Deputy Ministry of Tourism
Map processing and editing
Constantinos Papasavvas, Constantinos Kounnamas and Marios Andreou
Graphic Design
Lambros Sotiriou
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Table of contents
4. FOREWORD
GENERAL INFORMATION
4. Cyprus, the island of myth and
Aphrodite..
6. Biodiversity
7. Cyprus through the centuries
8. Climate
9. Diet
9. Other useful information
10. The trails of Cyprus....
11.Trail signage and infrastructure
12. Hiking code of conduct
13. Basic hiking equipment
16. AKAMAS
19. Aphrodite Trail
20.Adonis Trail
21. Smigies Trail
22. Pissouromoutti Trail
23. Avakas Gorge Trail
24. TROODOS
27. Trooditissa - Phini Trail
28. Prodromos - Zoumi Trail
29. Prodromos Dam - Stavroulia
Trail
30. Artemis Trail
31. Atalanti Trail
32. Persephone Trail
NATURE TRAILS
14. Introduction
15. Map key
33. Caledonia Trail
34. Myllomeris Trail
35. Psilo Dentro - Pouziaris Trail
36. Kampos tou Livadiou Trail....
37. Livadi Trail (wheelchair acces-
sible).
52. GLOSSARY
53.CONTACT INFORMATION
54. DESTINATION LABELS
38. Mnimata Piskopon Trail
39. Kannoures - Agios Nikolaos
Stegis Trail...
40. Chrysovrysi Trail
41. Loumata ton Aeton Trail
42. Moni - Fylagra Trail
44. KAVO GKREKO (CAPE
GRECO)
47. Konnoi - Cyclops Cave Trail
48. Konnoi - Agioi Anargyroi Trail
49. Aphrodite Trail
50. Sea Caves - Agioi Anargyroi
Trail
51. Kavos Trail
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CYPRUS
Nature Trails
Foreword
Cyprus is heaven on earth for nature and hiking enthusiasts. The island’s goddess, Aphrodite,
endowed her birthplace with outstanding natural beauty and enviable climate. The
Cyprus
Nature Trails
Guide invites you to explore the nature trails in Akamas, Troodos and Kavo
Gkreko. From the enchanting shores to the pine-covered mountaintops, the trails in this Guide
will amaze and reward you.
This Guide was prepared within the framework of project ‘i4WALKer:
Enrichment of Tour-
ism Infrastructure and Services and Reorganisation of the System for the Management and
Promotion of Nature Trails in Island Regions’
of the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme
‘Greece – Cyprus 2007-2013’, with 80% co-financing by the European Union and 20% from
national economic resources of Greece and Cyprus. The Programme covers three regions in
Greece (Crete, North Aegean and part of the South Aegean) and the whole of Cyprus.
The main aim of
i4WALKer
is to protect and promote the natural and cultural environments
of the areas covered by the project, by strengthening the infrastructure that supports the
development of alternative tourism and contributes to the extension of the tourist season
of the islands. The implementation of the proposed interventions is expected to ensure easy
access to areas of unique beauty and improve the experience of visitors, thus contributing to
increasing visitor traffic on the nature trails.
The processing and editing of the text included in this Guide was undertaken by Isotech Ltd
on behalf of the Department of Forests, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and
Environment.
You can find more information about the project, and about the trails, on the website of the
Department of Forests
www.moa.gov.cy/forest.
CYPRUS, THE ISLAND OF MYTH
AND APHRODITE
Cyprus is located in the southeast Mediterranean (33ο east and 35ο north of the Equator). It
is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, with an area of 9,254 square kilometres and a
coastline that is 765 kilometres long.
Evidence suggests that life existed on the island before 10000 B.C. In 8000 B.C., Cyprus was
inhabited and was going through its Neolithic period. Around 1200 B.C., Mycenaeans Achae-
ans established their presence on the island and the influence of the Greek culture was to
take root and be conserved until today. The discovery of rich copper deposits, in combination
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AKAMAS
Aphrodite and the Protection
of Nature
TROODOS
KAVO GKREKO
Fertile soil, unique topography,
great morphological diversity,
forests, rich agricultural pro-
duction, natural beauty, rich
and rare flora and fauna – this
is Cyprus. And the island’s deity
is Aphrodite, the Goddess of
Fertility. A female deity, linked
to birth and life, appeared in the
area of Pafos during the chal-
colithic period (4th millennium
B.C.). Her name was Ishtar, As-
tarte and then Aphrodite and
she was worshipped with glory
and greatness. Hesiod high-
lights this fertile, reproductive
ability of the goddess in Theog-
ony: ‘…grass grew up about
her beneath her shapely feet…’
(verse 191, translation by H.G.
Evelyn-White).
with the island’s rich forests, gave Cyprus immense wealth and determined its turbulent future. This
valuable metal (cuprum in Latin) also gave the island its name.
Cyprus is known as ‘the island of Aphrodite’, as it is described by Euripides in Bacchae. This is where
the Great Goddess of Love, Cypris or Pafia as she is also known, emerged from the waves near the
shores of Pafos: ‘…Her gods and men call [her] Aphrodite…because she grew amid the foam…and Cy-
progenes because she was born in billowy Cyprus…’ says Hesiod in Theogony (verse 191, translation
by H.G. Evelyn-White).
The creation of Cyprus is the result of a series of unique and complex geological processes and tec-
tonic movements. The peak of Troodos, at 1952 metres above sea level, is the deepest layer of a piece
of oceanic crust and the earth’s upper mantle. It was formed 92 million years ago at the bottom of the
ancient Tethys Sea, at a depth of 8000 metres. The Tethys Sea covered the geographical space from
the Pyrenees, through the Alps, Pindus and Zagros all the way to the Himalayans. With the collision
of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates and the geotectonic movements and processes that this
collision creates, Troodos began to rise from the bottom of the Tethys Sea some 15 million years ago.
It is amazing how the myth preserved the Historical Memory! Aphrodite, the Great Goddess of Cyprus,
emerged from the sea just as the island itself emerged from the bottom of the Tethys Sea!
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