Karpas Peninsula
Shore at the tip of the Karpas Peninsula
March 15, 2004
Although I really wanted to see Famagusta, the girls won, so we first headed to
Salamis, which we missed then on to the monastery at the end of the Karpas Peninsula.
The trip was long since the roads were pretty bad so we had to drive slow.
The monastery was kind of ordinary, but the area indescribable and the monastery
incredibly meaningful to the Greeks. The water’s edge was rocky and the water would
crash against the edge, splashing upwards. The area was desolate; mountains near
the water; in some places the shores were rocky, in others sandy, but nearly no
houses anywhere. It was untouched, unblemished, so pure, so perfect.
Golden Beach on the Karpas Peninsula
Karpas Peninsula