Скачать или смотреть Beach-Hopping 🏖️ The (Almost) Unspoilt Karpas Peninsula

Day 86. 32km (76356kms 6yrs)

The beach onto which I’d arrived and set up camp in the dark transformed with sunrise into a glorious arc of golden sand. Too beautiful to pack up and leave immediately I took a ‘refreshing’ dip enjoying having the utterly empty beach all to myself.

Continuing north east once more my only objective was to reach another famously beautiful beach, but on the way I encountered whole olives trees being transferred in the scoop of a digger (sorry I don’t know the grown up word for it 😆) a little boy waving from the lap of a tractor driver, and a group of men recreationally shooting birds out of the sky.

In the town of Rizokarpaso, the last settlement in the Turkish peninsula I found amongst the Turkish businesses a large and thriving Greek coffee shop. Managed by a Greek-speaker but employing Turkish-speakers I didn’t know when to ‘teshekuler’ and when to ‘efkharisto’. In any case I was glad to see folk living side by side in a town with a well-maintained church and new mosque.

East of Rizokarpaso the road deteriorates into some very bumpy bitumen which slowed me somewhat. After a delightful encounter with a mob of very friendly Iranian students (they gave me a beer!) I arrived at Golden Beach just on sunset. Backed by white sand dunes I imagine it will look spectacular once the sun returns in 14 hours.

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