FOLLOWING APHRODITE'S TRAIL

This independent hotel-to-hotel walking holiday offers a carefully planned mix of gentle coastal rambles combined with some slightly more challenging inland trails. 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. And Aphrodite spent time here, rising from the sea just off the Akamas coast. The walk takes you to her secret bathing pool. 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 Kato Akourdaleia, 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, to the Demetriou’s family-run hotel whose panoramic terrace offers open views over the western Troodos Mountains and the stunning Bay of Chrysochou, there’s something to suit everyone.

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