Black Sea Cruise Cyprus 2008

Today our land tour took us from the port of Limassol, Cyprus, through cypress lined boulevards and groves of citrus trees to Pafos and the Mosaics of Dionysus, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
This 3rd largest island in the Mediterranean Sea only has 850,000 inhabitants – 80% Greek Cypriots and 12% Turks and has seen empires wax and wane from Stone Age to Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Ottoman and British.
The House of Dionysus was a vast archeological site with beautiful mosaics being uncovered by students from Warsaw, Poland.
Another member of the tour took photos for me at the Tombs of the Kings – a large underground necropolis from the 3rd century B.C. before we passed through some carob plantations on our way back to the ship.