Marathounta Wilderness

[Dominic]

There's an area near Paphos that is surprisingly remote. I had been meaning to explore it for some time. And now, as they will be starting work on the nearby motorway soon, I thought it was the ideal time to visit. You may never get to Mars, but if you want a feel for what it might be like, you could do worse than take a walk through the countryside near Marathounta.

Read the article and chat about it below...
 

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[LouiseCastricum]

Wow just wow !

[cyprusmax47]

Thanks Dominic showing us these images before they start to built the motorway right there. There is nothing to criticize of the film you made, just WOW !!! I am very jealous that I am not as fit as I was some years ago when I climbed like a mountain goat in areas like this and more extreme (Dolomites) however in less hot temperatures.

Max

[brengreen]

WOW again. Brilliant

[Kili01]

Great photography, but what an inhospitable area! No wonder you found concrete blocks across some tracks you tried initially... Not somewhere I would rush to explore...
I wonder what geological events have occurred there to create those unusual ravines.

Dee

[cyprusmax47]

Great photography, but what an inhospitable area! No wonder you found concrete blocks across some tracks you tried initially... Not somewhere I would rush to explore...
I wonder what geological events have occurred there to create those unusual ravines.

Dee

Yes, this is exactly the area where the new motorway will be built. A place where in the past a lot of wrong accusations about destroying protected areas came up like the Natura protected Ezousa river valley which is nowhere near it, etc etc....

Max