Evretou Is Cut Off!
Dead End
This was why I knew I had to take the high road. On my first visit I got this far in the car but could go no further as a car was parked here. It was a good job too. Had I tried going any further I would have been underwater. Instead, I had to find a path through the vegetation on the right. Now, a lot of this includes a big prickly pear plantation, and I was keen to avoid that.
Going Up
The tricky part about walking through this was the amount of hidden rocks I had to negotiate. Fortunately at this point there weren't many stinging nettles. They appeared later...
Distant Mosque
We have blogged about Evretou on numerous times in the past. There are links at the foot of the page to them. Be sure to take a look at them as they go into more depth than I do here. Today we are here to look at the water.
Remember Your Track
Eventually I reached a farm track. I had driven on this last summer and considered using it to descend today. However, I didn't fancy the idea of getting stuck in Evretou so opted to walk instead. If you fancy following in my footsteps, I strongly suggest you leave a marker when you reach the track, so you know where to descend again when you are leaving.
Evretou
As the other blogs will explain, Evretou was a Turkish Cypriot village that was abandoned during the troubles. There is a farm above it and some of the houses are used to house animals now. The mosque, however, has been fully restored, and I want to check it out again, to see how close it is to the water now.