Following Aphrodite's Trail

• White sandy beaches, honey-coloured villages, pretty fishing harbours
• Fantastic bird-spotting: griffin vultures, red-footed falcons, Cyprus warblers
• Exotic Mediterranean flora: oranges, lemons, banana trees
• Over 10,000 years of historic and cultural interest
• Lovely sunny climate, ideal for year round walking; excellent value for money holiday

This independent hotel-to-hotel walking holiday offers a carefully planned mix of gentle coastal rambles combined with some slightly more challenging inland trails. Cyprus is where the floral zones of Africa, Europe and Asia meet, and over 5000 species flourish here. During your week, you will explore the very best of the Akamas Peninsula, Cyprus' most westerly tip, and aptly named the island's true wilderness. According to legend, Akamas, son of Theseus, first discovered it returning from Troy. Today, a nature reserve, surprisingly few visitors come here to admire its turquoise seas, jagged rocks, and gentle hills cloaked in pine and juniper forests.

From the Baths of Aphrodite, you walk inland to Lysos and tiny Miliou, then finish in sleepy Agios Georgios tis Pegeias, just down the coast from untouched Lara Bay, where turtles still breed. Through citrus groves and across sweeping headlands, the walking is undemanding, letting you relax and admire the backdrop of the Troodos mountains, and the azure seas of the Akamas coastline below. The hotels are lovely and varied too: from the tiny pension near the harbour at Agios Georgios tis Pegeias, to the fabulously restored C17 monastery, now a boutique spa hotel - with its own vineyard - in the mountain village of Miliou.