We decided that we’d give
this Western border crossing a go. Would save us some mileage. A new
road and new buildings. We were the only car there. The guys were
friendly, Looking through our passports the guy noticed that we had
recently flown into Larnaca. I then explained where we had been,
showed him our insurance for the occupied side and showed the parking receipt at customs. All was good. He did not stamp our passport and
customs had a quick look. Onto the occupied territories “control
point”.
He
also wanted to see our insurance and rego. All went very well but we
did not get the feeling it was right. I then went back to ask how
long we had and he checked the computer and said 30 days. We shrugged
and kept going. Something is not right as we do not have a transit
visa just the expired 10 day tourist visa. Will sort later.
We
drove on out to the NW point on sealed roads, just the last few kms
on dirt (rocks). We stopped at one large town to buy a sim card but the
system was down. We stopped or at least drove through every name on
the map trying to buy a SIM, but they were not available.
The path starts
here to the NE tip of Kibris. See blog on the 22 Dec 2019 for corresponding photo of NE tip
Very barren on this exposed NW tip of Kibris
The
sun shone for a short time while I made lunch then the clouds
closed in.
Went for a short walk over the rough
rocks. These must be very hardy flowers to survive here.
The
sea was still a bit angry and looked great rolling up on the jagged
rocks. We parked close to the water on a very exposed “beach”
A little rain now and then but not much. The wind and waves increased through the night.
78km Camp site 5m alt.
