Cyprus Warnings Or Dangers

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      Very easy to fall......
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  • Exposed drop over excavation site.
      Exposed drop over excavation site.
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  • Not necessarily a smooth walk
      Not necessarily a smooth walk
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  • Not coffee, just a pretty shrub.
      Not coffee, just a pretty shrub.
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Missing birds

by Patje

TENS OF THOUSANDS of migrant birds are being illegally slaughtered in Cyprus annually to feed an appetite for illegal “ambelopoulia” delicacies. Trappers using limesticks and mist nets are making huge profits while threatening Europe’s natural heritage. You can help generate the political will to end this indiscriminate killing by signing BirdLife Cyprus’s petition to relevant Ministers. Bird trapping in Cyprus has been taking place for many years. It began as a way of supplementing what was once a meager peasant diet. This is no longer the case. Trapping in Cyprus has become a large-scale, high-tech, lucrative business run by criminals. Trapped birds are usually supplied to restaurants that are illegally serving them - a dozen of trapped birds could be sold up to 80 euros. The competent authorities estimate this illegal business to be of the order of 15 million euros per year. Bird...

Drive carefully & calculate some extra time

by globetrott

When in Cyprus, drive carefully and always calculate some extra-time ! I saw rocks of all sizes that had fallen on the road , so you have to drive carefully, because broken tyres are mostly not enjured by the rental-car-companies.I also had to drive through a part of the road, where the construction-works were going on and I had to drive through and around the worst potholes I have ever seen. The main problem in Cyprus is that you cannot just stop and turn around at any of these tiny roads, there is never enough space to do so and you have hooping cars behind of you...Driving on roads without asphalt is also frobidden by most of the rentalcar-companies, BUT what can you do, when a narrow road is under total reconstruction all of a sudden, and the asphalt is missing for 3km, like it happened to me in the Troodos-mountains and there was no other way to drive back home !

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Take Precautions in case of Heatwave

by greekcypriot

The island, lying in the east of the Mediterranean, is a hugely popular destination and attracts thousands of UK holidaymakers each summer. Cyprus is in the grip of a heatwave with temperatures in places reaching a searing 43 degrees Celsius. Visitors are advised to take precautions against the extreme heat by drinking plenty of water to avoid dehydration, the main cause of heat exhaustion.Don't stay in the sun for longer than one hour, especially not between midday and 4 pm.

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2009 scratchcard timeshare touts

by BobbyBobbins

The timeshare touts are still in Cyprus in 2009. Unfortunately you are not safe from them anywhere as they will chase tourists on mopeds and in cars, but Paphos harbour seems to be one of the worst places for them. They hide in the car park where they can identify the tourists in their red plated rental cars. They also pick out the palest people as they hope they have just arrived in Cyprus and haven`t had time to be warned by anyone about them yet. The touts offer you a scratchcard, and you `win` a bottle of wine at the least. They then take you to a hotel in the middle of nowhere and there is a 4 hour seminar. It`s then that the hard sell starts. Don`t let them ruin your holiday. Say no thanks and walk on, or ignore them totally.

Touting in Cyprus

by LIMASSOL

Try this littel tip, when you are approached by someone with a bundle of cards in their hands, if you cannot escape them, here's the tip: tell them you have just bought a house or a flat in Paphos, Limassol etc, and they will walk away. Beware make sure you know your location of your ' flat or house', or you are staying with your parents.John

Driving In Cyprus

by steventilly

How to drive like a Cypriot:+ Always be on your mobile.+ If a traffic light is on red, ignore it.+ If you do have to stop at red, stop with your car all the way over the white line.+ While at the red light, creep constantly forward.+ If you're at red behind someone who did stop at the white line (a tourist) blare your horn at them if they don't start moving before the light goes green.+ At blind junctions with mandatory STOP signs, drive straight out without stopping.+ Or looking.+ Ignore all speed limits, they're only for tourists.+ In areas with mandatory NO OVERTAKING signs, ignore them and overtake. Force the oncoming traffic up onto the pavement or into a ditch.+ Don't drive along steadily in slow traffic (assuming overtaking is absolutely impossible). Wait for a 10m gap to open up then floor the accelerator like an F1 car off the grid, before stamping on the brakes again to avoid...

Touts

by steventilly

As with many places these days (Rhodes, Malta, Tenerife) Cyprus has its share of touts. In Paphos these congregate in one area - on the seafront where the harbour side promenade begins. There can be as many as 5 or 6 all standing within a couple of meters of each other and despite seeing you turn down the previous tout the next one will still approach you - 4 approached me within about 20 seconds one day. I guess their aim is to wear you down. I've no idea what it is they were touting, I never lingered long enough to find out. Usually whatever it is is usually property-based and given the amount of development going on on Cyprus I'd guess that's the case here too.Just say "no thanks" and walk on, though I find that very difficult by the end of most holidays by which time I start to become argumentative. They always act indignant and surprised "come on, I was only asking". Yeah, but when...

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Kalymnos Camping, thefts

by beksinski

Everybody was telling me Cyprus is a safe place. Probably it is, but in my case it was different. My laptop and camera were stolen from Kalymnos/Governors Beach, around 20km west of Limassol. I was observed probably cause I left my place just for 10min. Both camping owners and local police were not helpful.I hope it does not happen often. I am going there again.I do not have any photos from that place, you know the reason :)

Cabarets

by george5b

Despite their rather inconspicous name, cabarets are the Cypriot version of brothels. And there are lots of them, most with some connection to organized crime. Unfortunately, while Cyprus is generally very safe, several tourist get drugged and/or robbed every year while visiting one of these establishments. The best advice is to stay well clear of anything called cabaret, night club or men's paradise.

Passport Stamps Northern Cyprus

by MikeAtSea

Generally the rule applies not to have your passport stamped when you cross from the Greek to the Turkish side of Cyprus. In some cases people have not been left back into the Greek controlled area and you have problems in Greece or to obtain a new visa in the same passport. Since I travel a lot, and my maxi passport of 64 pages was almost full I took the chance.

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