Nicosia·Monday, September 21, 2026
Cyprus Lifestyle
The Island, At Its Best
Photo: UnsplashThe island's last wild peninsula, at the pace it deserves.
Most visitors see the Akamas from the back of a jeep, in a cloud of dust and an hour. That is a mistake. The peninsula rewards the slow, the ones who arrive by boat at first light and let the sea caves fill with colour before anyone else is awake.
By afternoon the road narrows to a track, the track to a path, and the path to nothing at all but thyme and the sea. There is a lighthouse at the end, and the good sense to turn back before dark.
No resorts, no straight roads — just gorges, sea caves and a lagoon the colour of a jewel.
Cooler air, stone villages, wineries and pine forest — the Cyprus that most beach visitors never meet.
Record numbers of travellers are testing the patience of host cities. Fines, fees and bans are the answer some have chosen.
The week on the island, chosen and written by our editors — property, culture and the good life, in one considered email.
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