samedi 15 juin 2013

Day 7

First , big news, I'm solving the issue with the pictures, its now all uploading, but it's quite long.
So the 7th day, I've been to the North of Cyprus, exactly to Famagusta and Kyrenia.

To get to Famagusta, we crossed the United Kingdom base. And that's funny to see beach towels on soldiers windows, and to be honnest, the scottish are the most proud and their towels are mainly all the time the Scottish flag.

After crossing the border, and I must tell you that the Turkish policemen use kind of bungalow in the color of Turkey, we entered Famagusta.
Famagusta has the ghost town, so I was able to see how was Cyprus before 1974 as the house stayed how they were at that time.

After we have seen the old city, it means the city inside the venitian walls. The cathedral has been transformed into a mosquee, the lala mustafa pacha mosquee. But the people over there are nice, they speak Turkish, English and Greek. And overl all, they don't need a calculate to make a division by 2, as 2 turkish liras are 1 €. The port is almost desert ads they can trade only with Tukey.

Staying there 1 hours, after we took again the bus to cross the island to Kyrenia. So, there are the mesouria , which consists of lots of prairies between the 2 mountains chains of the islands. There are some settlements village that are visible, with village name such as Inönu, which is obvious they are settlements.
Crossing the pentadaktylos (nice mountains), we stopped in villapais, the only Christian building which was not destroyed.
It's a little abbey build by Venetian, first it was catholic then orthodox. You can see in the entrance that the mosaic has been destroyed by Turkish authorities.

Then we went to Kyrenia, and I realized what means colonization. There was only Turkish from Turkey, not speaking English, using calculate to divide by 2, and giving you Turkish liras, and for eating, there was only Turkish thing, in the same price as in a Western Europe Kebab restaurant. The Turkish army was everywhere, some Turkish looking at you in a weird way. There I met a Belgian couple, and she told me she regret to go to North Cyprus, I told them she could go to Paphos next year :-).
Even the doctors seems to be not really good, as the mom hurted her eyes with the hotel swimming pool and the doctor told her to use water. I asked her to go to Lefkosia, to cross Ledra checkpoint and go to a European doctor.

After that, the bus took me back to Aya Napa , and it's obvious , it's the Cypriot Ibiza, full of Russian boys and girls, lots of activities, I may go there one afternoon.



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