Cyprus
12-22 July 2010
A few photos from our 10 days in Cyprus. As much of the time was
spent visiting familiar places, there aren't photos of those.
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This strange construction shelters part of the neolithic settlement of
Kalavasos-Tenta. The site can be seen from the Limassol-Nicosia
motorway, but this was our first visit.
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The site dates from around the end of the seventh millennium BC
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The village was initially excavated in 1947, with further work from
1976.
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The settlement is surrounded by walls and consists of a compound of
buildings with simple circular or double circular ground plans built
with sun-dried mudbrick or stone or a combination of both. The roof was
flat and was made of a wooden frame consisting of branches, reeds, and
earth.
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From the covered site, looking across a field to another part of Tenta,
which we didn't visit this time.
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A few kilometres up the road is another neolithic site, Khirokitia,
which was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998. These are
reconstructions using authentic materials of two of the houses.
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The village lines the steep slopes of this hill
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There is an amazing number of densely packed houses, abandoned for
unknown reasons around 6000BC.
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This early culture was clearly a well developed society and was engaged
in farming, hunting and herding
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Further excavation work is ongoing here
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Looking down on the reconstructed houses.
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On a different pace, we hired a boat for a short ride from Paphos
harbour
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Looking back to Paphos harbour
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Some of the hotels at Paphos
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We had a fun few hours at the waterpark in Paphos - we didn't think to
take any action photos, but grabbed a couple of quick shots as we left.
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The lazy river ride.
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Ben getting to grips with the swimming pool at
villa Kambos.
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Debbie and Mark with Ben and Thomas in the pool.
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