Evretou Is Cut Off!

Published 19th of March, 2019

Dead End

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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