Cyprus Trip School Trip

In choosing Geography Tours, we will be visiting traditional villages that showcase the life of their inhabitants as well as modern cities that developed in the few decades that have passed. We will be visiting national parks, forest, beaches and mountains, for which all of them can be reached within a spam of 30 minutes of road time. We will learn about the complex world of politics that divided the island.

Cyprus is a location of early adoption of Christianity and one of the first location that Apostles visit as to spread the new faith. This resulted in Cyprus been home of vast amount of Churches and Historic Monasteries, with many relics still in the possession of those monasteries. The island is also the resting place of St Lazarus, the man that Jesus Christ resurrected from the death.

The local people of the island have always adorned sports and in particular football, basketball and sea sports. This love have given birth to many sport facilities that can be used by teams to train and even play friendly matches with local teams. The Mediterranean climate also contributes a lot for warm winters that the teams can take advantage of.

Cyprus is an environmental miniature of the Mediterranean. Here you can find unique flora and fauna, not found anywhere else in the world. If the time of season is right we may witness the flamingo birds that visit the island to spend the winter in a warmer climate. We will hike in trails with ancient rock formations. Did you know that the tallest mountain of Cyprus used to be a volcano?

Whenever you dig on the island, you will find pieces of the past. The earliest known inhabitants of Cyprus are known to existed 10,000 years ago, developing small villages with round houses as a fine example of Choirokitia Village. Then the Phoenicians, Greek and later Romans were all integral part of the island communities with cities and countless artefacts that we can visit in museums or on the sites.

The most spoken language in Cyprus is Greek with Turkish and English being the 2 other official languages. With our tours we will enchase the knowledge of your Greek language by interacting with locals, while at the same time experience the beauties that the island has to offer.