2020-02-02 Day 447 Sun



We were both feeling tired. I stayed in bed and read. Having my 3 cups of tea in bed along with my porridge and yogurt. The Cypriot yogurt is 0% fat, strained and thickened. It  certainly does not taste like 0% fat yoghurt. It has a very creamy texture.

John spent his morning catching up on photos.

We drove back down to the Anemurium, thinking that it may not be worth visiting, but it was.

Some of the buildings had a roof and a lot of the crypts still had their rounded roofs. The remains of a castle perched high on the headland overlooking the town ship. An outer and inner wall mostly destroyed protected the castle from the land. No walls were needed on the other sides of the steep sides up from the sea.






 After lunch and a wonder around in amongst the ruins with their baths and two aqueducts delivering the water to the baths,


We headed on West.

Shortly after passing our track from last night and seeing what we couldn’t at night the road dropped back to being single lanes. I was caught behind a few trucks. An interesting windy road on very steep hills leading to the sea. Banana’s everywhere….

Here most of them are on steep hills and all their fronds look burnt maybe from the wind and salt air.

We followed a track down towards a beach, through banana plantations, but the track became a little narrow.

Next we turned off to look at some ruins. John was reluctant as the map showed a cable car symbol., on down through the bananas to the castle on the headland. Yes we found the cable car, in fact 4 of them. They use them to hall the bunches of banana’s up the hill to the road.

Sadly there is a sign asking one not to walk up to the castle as it is an excavation site and unsafe.

We walked down the steep track to the sea and two “bays” one formed by the sea coming in through an archway. .On top of this hill is some cyrpts. The other open to the sea , between the crypts and the castle. Several small groups were having a picnic. One group of 3 ladies were perched on a large flat rock with table and chairs.

We moved EC to a dead end road just above the open bay. Sitting outside with nibbles and wine we enjoyed the last hour of warmth. Although overcast the sunset was very orange.

76km   Camp site  83m alt.