Away from the tourist areas, the Cyprus countryside has much to offer the visitor with a wealth of traditional villages, vineyards, wineries, painted churches, remote monasteries and cool pine forests. This is a paradise for nature lovers rich in endemic flora and fauna.
Cyprus has literally hundreds of villages many of which are nothing more than a cluster of houses around a church and a coffee shop, in some of the more remote villages life has remained virtually unchanged for generations and it is here that the visitor can catch a glimpse of the true Cyprus.