Day 67 - Ruins

K had gone online and booked herself a physio appoinment so we jumped in the car and let google take us through back streets and suburbs with little idea of where we were going.

After the appointment we headed towards the coast to see what it was like, as we had arrived in the dark the previous evening. We headed to Paphos Harbour, and although we could see that it obviously catered to British tourists, the boardwalk and outlook was nice and relaxed.

We walked to the Paphos Archaeological Park a short distance away, and without any great expectations we went in for a look. Like most of these sites it was much larger than expected but where this differed from others was the well preserved floor mosaics depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The colours were strong as was the detail and to think that there were probably more of them buried underneath where we were walking but the expense of uncovering them is so prohibitive.

We then drove to the Tomb of the Kings, another archaeological site only a kilometer or so from for where we are staying. Once again this was much larger area than expected with many empty tombs excavated. We also learnt that there weren't any kings buried here just wealthy locals. A lot of the carving reminded of us Petra which of course isn't that far away as the crow flies.