I was pondering on the thought, how come I never wrote about my trips in Cyprus ?. So, am here to pen down some of my recent visits around Limassol.
Anyway, after returning from Toronto, my friend has asked me to accompany him to kalavasos, since it would be his second last weekend in Cyprus, I couldn’t say NO.
Kalavasos,
Main attraction was the Dam, the surprising thing was that, this time for a change, there’s water in the dam, which made me believe that drought is certainly over, for a minute, until, I found out that it was only 4% full. It suddenly turned from sunny to cloudy, which added much more beauty to the already spectacular/picturesque view. There were few rain drops, which couldn’t stop our enthusiasm to tour around.
After enjoying the beauty there, I had the best lunch after 52 days of egg/bread/cheese in Toronto. We then had our lengthiest photo session for couples by Sareen. After forcing them to drop it, we moved on to Copper mines, abandon ones of course, Which was boring for me to say the least. I was not much amazed since I lived near by coal mines, back in my home town. Since its cyprus it was AwESOME, to see the proof behind the story [among many], why it was named Cyprus. You may like it, if you weren’t living near by any sort of mines. I heard they will restore the mines for tourists, probably in a year or two. In Cyprus time, I think that will NEVER happen 
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We then drove to the KALAVASOS village center, the pleasant breeze followed us, all the way from the dam. We roamed around the village, we saw many old faces who were probably wondering, what the hell we were doing there !!. The small stores placed along the round about with a Chruch at one end, shows a typical greek village’s style. The freshly brewed coffee, the old sharing their jokes and laughing out loud, certainly, reminds me of my village. We then searched for the small train [supposed to be the only train in cyprus] which was mentioned in one of the famous blogs, well, we did find it in a park dedicated to Maria. The train was used to transport the copper, from the mines mentioned early near the dam. I once again, visited my childhood by playin on the see-saw, cradle etc., with the children.
The following week end, we went to Lofou for lunch. Read/heard/learnt about this place for its famous traditional Cyprus Meze. We were six in number and ordered 5 Chicken and 1 vegetarian meze. The only difference for chicken and Vegetarian meze was that they gave mushrooms instead of chicken, can you believe that!!. The food was amazing, it was alot for 6 of us, probaby 4 would have been sufficient. The Meze was amazing, though the chicken didn’t play much part in it. At the end, the serving lady, who was cute
, has brought us Lukumi, a traditional sweet dish as desert. At first I thought she was saying look-at-me, lol.
A british lady was kind enough, to capture us in the below picture. There were many jokes cracked during our lunch, including the owner’s, which were quite spontaneous and hilarious. We then argued about whether RUSSEL PETERs should/shouldn’t make comments about India. Anyway, a nice lunch with friends is always a great moment to have.
Lofou is a beautiful village, on top of a hill, the climate around, has added more beauty to the valley at the end of the village by turning into cloudy from sunny. Now I do understand why old people prefer to live a peaceful life on hill tops.
On our way back to Limassol we stopped at a place near kouris dam, where two different streams of water, from different sources merged. Some people were playing with their 4Ds and dirt-bikes there, which looked DAMN cooool for my boring s/w engineer life 
. We drove all the way to the other end of the place and found ourselves amazed at the sight of many mobs down there, near the water, fishing. Had another photo session there.
On the next day after searchign for a place until 2 AM, we decided to go to some medieval bridges far away from limassol. But at 1200, near KFC we decided to go to AGROS. I love spontaneous trips. Started to search for Agros on my sixth edition of Cyprus Tourism book, since, I was the proclaimed navigator for our little mazda familia. Followed the B8 and took a right for Agros 16 km after a village, on the way to Troodos.
The sun was very bright for April, but after that particular right turn into the mountains, it was suddnely cloudy and then started to rain. We stopped at a beautiful cliff for snaps, the houses on top of the hills in front of us were very beautiful. True, that the natural trails on these mountains would be very picturisque as mentioned in the book.
Little did I know, I was still searching for agros in the map, when we reached that place . Stopped at Kouros fountain for some snaps, while it was still raining. We then drove, drove and drove til a dead end, waited there for some time and had a small photo session, while two israels lost their way like we did and talked with us in HINDI, which was very cool, since they liked India and were tryin to speak with us in thir cute accent, YES ! they were gals.
We searched for ROSE GARDENS just to find out that there are far too many places/apartments/streets which begin with the word "ROSES". Finally, a kiosk owner has enlightened us, that, it was not the season for roses and there were not many roses at the garden, but we can see the rose water factory near by, which we were not interested in. We started to go further up, to Chandria, in search of the tallest peak where we can see troodos and Limassol wine villages, which we were lazy to go after finding where it was. Back to Limassol after watching the eartherned resorvoirs near the same village. The road from AGROS to Chandria and then to Troodos was awesome, filled with full of green valleys and brown and amazing houses on the hill tops.
Worthy places to visit, Kalavasos/Lofou/Agros/Chandria during April season i.e Spring.