Cyprus on my mind

I have always loved to travel with my bestfriend. We have been friends since vocational school, and we have travelled together to Cyprus, Dubai and Morocco twice. 

This time we wandered around Cyprus about a week in the end of March 2018 with her. 

We had our first hotel close to the beach, in the city center. It was really dirty and there was not much to do.
We walked to the Tomb of Saint Lazarus. We call it the basement of Demons.

So with nothing much to do, we changed the hotel. We booked one a little further away from the city, it was in Pile. This one had a gorgeous pool area, own beach and they arranged all kind of excursios. For example we did jet skiing.

We met a group of people who spoke persian, and so does

my best friend. So she spoke with them and we went to a full day trip with them to a donkey farm.

    

It was called the Golden Donkeys farm, in Skarinou, we had lunch there and a they gave us a lesson of the donkeys and showed us around.

It is one of the biggest donkey farms in Europe with about 170 donkeys.

There is also a wax museum, an ancient olive press and a church of Virgin Mary of Memila.

We did a donkey ride as well.

The whole trip was a bit awkward for me, since I don't speak persian and everyone else did.

From the hotel we also took a taxi to a Camel Park in Mazotos. There was also a small zoo.

We took a camel ride, fed all the animals and played with virtual reality glasses.

We wanted to visit Ayia Napa as well, we heard a lot of good things about it, so we went to the bus stop and waited for a bus. It never came, so we took a taxi. It is about an hour drive, cost us only 20€.

Note to myself, check the season times before booking flights.

Most of the smaller shops and local restaurants were closed, also the waterparks and amusement parks were all closed.

There was only one bar open, but it was fun. It was called the Senior Frogs.

With a bus you can easily get to Nicosia, there is a shopping center. We fell asleep on the buss and missed our stop. 

After all it was a nice trip. The weather was really good, no rain at all and it was warm enough to wear shorts.