Natural places of interest of Cyprus

Come to Cyprus in February-May! The great variety of feral flowers resuscitates pratums and fields: tulips, gladioluses, irises, orchids... In a tangle of grasses it is possible to find lilies, in mounts - the Alpine violets. In summer heat the celebratory flower dress will disappear, and pratums will turn to the dry yellow-brown squares, only an oleander and a squill will blossom till the autumn.

Cyprus is the country of charming natural beauty and the big diversity of climates and landscapes. The island geomorphology contributed in building of a wide range of climatic zones, since the Semialpine region at apex Troodosa to humid climate of coasts.

From a mount the Olympus is discovered a dazzling panorama of Cyprus: picturesque bright green valleys, emerald woods and vineyards on slopes of mounts, the urban quarters lowered by terraces to small bays, feral rocks of gorges, twisting shores of sweeping mountain rivulets. The oldest Cyprian cedar grows in a cedar grove of bottom of one of mounts Troodosa: it has more than 800 years.

Cyprus is had on skreshchenii pathes between three continents, therefore it has very rich flora and a fauna with elements of all three continents which surround it. Thanks to island isolation of Cyprus here too there are many endemial aspects of plants and animals.

One of the basic natural resources of island - the well-known Cyprian woods. In ancient times Cyprus was all is covered by impervious woods. The vessels builted of the Cyprian pine and a cedar, were considered as the best in the Mediterranean. Now woods grow mainly on slopes of mounts and with a narrow strip frame a water front. On Cyprus - some aspects of pines (aleppskaja and troodosskaja, covering the highest apexes Troodosa); oaks (a gold oak, nanous and even stone with small prickly leaves); strange tree strawberries, giant cactuses; endemial aspects of a cypress, a juniper, a platan, an alder and a cedar.

The Flora of Cyprus is especially rich with endemial aspects of bushes and seasonal flowers which compound a unique botanical and natural-aesthetic legacy of island and do island some kind of botanical paradise.

From the very beginning of education, 20  million years ago, Cyprus was island. Arrival of animals on island was studied by specialists throughout many years. According to the collected information, first there have arrived on island hippopotamuses and elephants as fine float. They have got to Cyprus 1,5  million years ago and, except shrews and mice, were the unique mammals bunking on island before settling by its person (9000 years ago).

On Cyprus - about 350 aspects feathery. Auks use island as migratory baseline from Europe to Africa and anatropicly about what there are data from times of the Homere. On Salty loch, near the city of Larnaka, it is possible to admire pink flamingos who annually arrive here from far Caspian sea.

From marine animals the most amusing - fur seals and turtles. widespread aspect of fur seals There is - Monk Seal does not breed any more in neritic region and island caves. Two aspects of marine turtles - Cheloniz mydas (påëåíàÿ a turtle) and Caretta caretta freely breed on sandy beaches of island under law protection

Not only tourists, but also Cypriotes dream to see the graceful argali - the Cyprian mouflon. This very much the rare species of animals dwells highly in mounts and seldom comes across on eyes to people.

On Cyprus always it is possible to take pleasure in fresh vegetables and fruit, lemons, mandarins and oranges continually grow. Crop here collect some times in a year. Apples, pears, plums, apricots, peaches, a fig, grapes, olive trees, sweet fruits of a carob tree in the autumn ripen. Collect vegetables in the early spring. Water-melons, melons and bananas in the summer grow ripe. With ward of winter the collecting of oranges, grapefruits, an almond and again vegetables begins.