Lebanon 2003

CY-03 - Cyprus and Lebanon with Fischer Date of travel: July 3 - July 17, 2003 ITINERARY: On July 3 early morning drive to Prague airport. Then flight to Larnaka, CYPRUS for a 14 days stay. While there I did sightseeing of Larnaka by myself. I also went to the beech with its warm water number of times. I took 3 trips by bus with the Czech and Slovak guides over the Greek part of the island (on July 5 a trip took me to quite high Troodos Mountains with the Kykkos Monastery, on July 8 another one to southwest part of the island with the city of Lemassol, ancient city of Kourion, archeological dicks Paphos and a place, where Aphrodite emerged from the sea and a trip to the Greek part of the capital Nicosia). In the evening on July 11 I boarded a ship at Lemassol harbor for an overnight sailing to Beirut, LEBANON. The following day the passengers of this ship had a sightseeing trip to an ancient city of Byblos with a Crusaders’ Castle about 40 km north of Beirut, to the steep mountains above the coast, to the famous Jeita Grotto with its pallet of stalactites and stalagmites and all this was crowned by a visit of Beirut itself. It was a peaceful day, day which is not as peaceful every day there. The ship took us back to Cyprus the following night. I signed for this trip while in Cyprus. On July 15 I made an individual trip by a local bus to Greek Nicosia. From there I walked to the Turkish part of the city, to NORTHERN CYPRUS. Then I took a taxi to the northern coast of the island to a harbor Keryneia (also Kyrenia) in Greek and Girne in Turkish. It is enchanting harbor with a castle. I became a millionaire in the Turkish part of the island. I exchange $10 and got 13,800,000 Turkish Liras. I got back taking the reversed route - a taxi to Northern Nicosia, on foot to Greek Nicosia and a bus to Larnaka. In the evening on July 17 I got on the plane and flew back to Prague, Czech Republic. Then by a local bus and a car of my relatives to the house of my sister and her husband. Travel office: Fischer Travel Company in Prague, Czech Republic Who took part: number of tourists from the Czech and Slovak Republics