The Blue Lagoon, the Troodos road, and the rest of Cyprus.
Which Akamas boat actually anchors in the lagoon. What a jeep day to Lara Bay costs. Whether the Zenobia is too deep for a first dive. Every tour on the island, reviewed.
The Cyprus days that go first.
Every review →Boats out of Latchi, buggies into the Akamas, a long table up in the Troodos villages. More travellers take these than anything else on the island.
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Blue Lagoon (Akamas) Bus & Boat Tour with Water Slide from Paphos
Review of Paphos’ Blue Lagoon bus and boat tour, with Akamas views, swimming, snorkeling, a water slide, villages, and practical booking tips.
From · $54
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Cpt Marko – Blue Lagoon & Turtle Cruise with Optional Lunch
from $42
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100% Cyprus – Tour to Troodos mountains and villages (From Paphos)
from $66
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APHRODITE II -LAZY DAY CRUISE-BLUE LAGOON,TURTLE COVE, with LUNCH
from $54
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Stardust Variety Dinner Show
from $72
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Blue Lagoon Cruise with Sightseeing from Latchi Harbour
from $30
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Half-Day Scuba Diving Tour – Discover Scuba Diving!
from $100
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Wave Dancer Half Day BBQ Cruise – All Inclusive
from $83
Blue Lagoon: three ways to reach the same water.
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Latchi harbour empties every morning. Big catamarans with a slide off the back, small hulls that stop where the green turtles feed, and coach-and-boat days that pick up along the Paphos strip. The water is the same colour on all of them; the day is not.
Slide off the back, lunch on the deck
Coach up the Akamas coast, swap onto a catamaran at Latchi, an hour at anchor in the lagoon with the slide down and the barbecue lit.
Turtle cove first, lagoon after
A smaller boat out of the same harbour, a stop where the green turtles feed off Latchi, then the lagoon while the big decks are still loading.
Avakas Gorge and Lara Bay by jeep
The Akamas has no tarmac. A jeep takes the gorge track, the loggerhead beach at Lara and the Baths of Aphrodite on the way back down.
The six days most Cyprus holidays are built around.
A boat to the lagoon, a track into the Akamas, the mountain villages, the wrecks, an evening on the water and the old stones. Everything else is a variation on these.
The east coast sells the sea by the half day.
Cape Greco arches, Konnos Bay, the sea caves north of Ayia Napa. Boats leave the two harbours every hour through the summer and most of them run twice. The dive schools work the same water an hour earlier.
The Troodos road is the other Cyprus.
An hour inland the temperature drops ten degrees and the pines start. Painted churches under shingle roofs, Omodos and Lefkara on the wine route, and a village lunch that runs to nine plates before the meat arrives.
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Cyprus, sorted by the price of the day.
From a harbour ticket to a chartered boat, with the most-booked run in each band underneath.
Harbour cruises, water park tickets, a first dive and the short runs up the mountain.
The island standard: Akamas boats, jeep and buggy safaris, Troodos wine days with lunch.
Private boats, guided wreck dives and chartered days with a driver.
The Akamas, the Zenobia and the rock Aphrodite came out of.
Painted churches and beach clubs run right round the Mediterranean. A roadless peninsula, a ferry lying on its side at sixteen metres and a birthplace myth on a pebble beach belong to this island.
The Akamas Peninsula
Cyprus keeps its last roadless corner between Coral Bay and the northern tip: a dirt track over the Avakas Gorge, loggerhead turtles nesting at Lara Bay, and the freshwater pool the Baths of Aphrodite are named for. Nothing without four-wheel drive gets down it, which is why every Paphos operator sells the same track and no two runs feel the same.
- 1Value for money Quad & Buggy Tour to Lara Bay and Adonis Falls★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 484 reviews
- 2Caves Jeep Safari from Protaras & Ayia Napa★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 387 reviews
- 3Jeep Safari to Akamas National Park: Avakas Gorge Tour from Paphos★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 249 reviews
The Zenobia
A Swedish ferry rolled over outside Larnaca in 1980 with its lorries still chained to the deck, and it has been the best-known wreck dive in the Mediterranean ever since. The top of the hull sits shallow enough for a guided first dive; the cargo deck and the bridge are why instructors keep going back.
- 1Half-Day Scuba Diving Tour – Discover Scuba Diving!★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 669 reviews
- 2Discover Scuba diving★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 504 reviews
- 3Try a Scuba Diving Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 400 reviews
Petra tou Romiou
The stack of rock on the coast road between Paphos and Limassol is where Aphrodite is said to have come ashore out of the foam. It is a pebble beach with a hard current and an extraordinary light at dusk, and nearly every west-coast tour stops there because the story is older than the road.
- 1APHRODITE II -LAZY DAY CRUISE-BLUE LAGOON,TURTLE COVE, with LUNCH★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,395 reviews
- 2Blue Lagoon and Aphrodite’s Baths Guided Day Tour from Paphos★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 389 reviews
- 3Pafos and Kourion Tour from Protaras, Aya Napa, Larnaca, Limassol★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 39 reviews
More Cyprus tours leave Paphos than anywhere else.
Harbour cruises up to the Akamas, jeep tracks to Lara Bay, the wine road that climbs to Omodos, and the mosaics five minutes from the fort. The west coast is where the island keeps its widest choice of days.
- 1Blue Lagoon (Akamas) Bus & Boat Tour with Water Slide from Paphosfrom $54
- 2100% Cyprus – Tour to Troodos mountains and villages (From Paphos)from $66
- 3Blue Lagoon Cruise with Sightseeing from Latchi Harbourfrom $30
Cyprus eats late, once the heat lets go.
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Book these before you land in Cyprus.
Most of the island can be booked from a sun lounger the night before. These cannot. They run on deck space, dive slots and a summer calendar that starts filling in May.
- 01Private Diving at Zenobia Wreck in LarnakaGuided wreck dives go out per instructor, so the group size caps the morning.
- 02WaterWorld Themed WaterPark Admission Ticket in Ayia NapaEntry is dated, and the middle of a July day is the part that sells.
- 03Wave Dancer Fireworks Night CruiseOne departure an evening and the deck is the limit.
- 04Value for money Quad & Buggy Tour to Lara Bay and Adonis FallsYou drive it yourself, so a full licence is checked at the meeting point.
A Cyprus July is planned around water, or altitude.
Nicosia clears 40 degrees in August and the coast is only a few degrees behind. Every good answer is wet or high: a boat with shade and a swim ladder, a dive where the water sits in the mid twenties, or the drive up to Troodos where the pines start and the air changes.
By base — where you are staying
Paphos to Protaras, the whole south coast in one drive.
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