The Limassol Area Is The Hub Of The Island If You Want To Be Central For Everything

We love the Limassol area, it was our home for many years so we know it really well. We always found it was really easy to get to everywhere from there, its a central place on the highway that now travels all the way from Ayia Napa and Protoras area in the east to almost now Polis and Latchi in the west. It is easy to get to either airport, Nicosia the capital or up to the mountains in Troodos. And if we had friends from either end of the Island they always came to us as we were in the middle!

The Limassol area itself covers up to around Pissouri in the west, out to governors beach in the east and north up to some of the villages around Lania. If you draw a box on the map around those areas you have about covered it.

Personally for us as well, it isn't what you would called too touristy!. It is a working town and the islands second major city after Nicosia the capital that offers some tourism. We could never understand why in brochures it always said the Limassol area is the main tourism centre of the island. We would say Paphos and then Ayia Napa and Protoras hold that honour.

Don't get us wrong though, Limassol town has some wonderful hotels as you leave the centre of town and head east and our all time favourite has to be the Columbia Beach Hotel and Resort in Pissouri.

The Limassol area is packed with history, has some of the best winery country in the island and some wonderful places to eat. You have a choice of several beaches and some great places to visit for a day out.

If you head inland, you will discover wonderful villages still carrying on their daily life as they have done for many years, albeit some with the addition of mod cons but you will still find that unmistakeable flavour of the real cyprus.

You will also find the people of this area very welcoming to you, so don't be suprised if you find yourself sitting in the back yard of a persons house and they offer you a drink or some food. Be thankful you have just witnessed some of that world famous cyprus hospitality!

You can find it in the town as well but as with most places in the world these days, there is an influx of other foreign nationals whose leaning towards service and hospitality may not be in line with that of a cypriot national. Just take people as you find them and be assured you won't leave Cyprus without at least making 1 friend who will greet you as though they have known you for years. That's the charm of this island.

2 of the islands 3 military bases are found in the area and if you visit around January and April you might be lucky enough to see the Red Arrows practising their aerobatics before the summer season starts for them. They visit because the weather is perfect for training. Before they leave they always do their first show of the season over Akrotiri Bay.

You can see the Troodos mountain range very well from the Limassol area and in the winter they look beautiful with the fallen snow. A great draw for skiers all over the island and day trippers who want just experience something different after all that sun that has greeted the island for most of the year.

It is said if you time it right you can ski in the morning in Troodos and then sunbathe on the beach at the coast in the afternoon. You could probably do that in March as the snow sometimes stays until then but we have known February on occasion to be a scorcher, we have sat on the patio in shorts but it is not common! If you get the opportunity to do both, don't miss it.

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