Apostolos Andreas Monastery
We’ve lost our way several times on the road to Karpass Peninsula, so we missed the Sunday Mass. Since the road and the view around monastery were so beautiful we haven’t been so upset. We were welcomed by a herd of lazy cats, surrounded the monastery. It was a perfectly sunny day in January, so they were sunbathing at the porch. There was a small local market with vendors hoping to earn a few coins from the visitors.We walked inside and it was a whole different world. This wasn’t the first time that I was seeing a functioning Orthodox monastery but it still was fascinating with icons, huge candlesticks, and enormous human figures from wax… We weren’t the only visitors, some people from Southern Cyprus; I assume, prayed and lit a candle. Also there is a sacred fountain here. Visitors can take home some water with plastic containers which can be bought there.
