About Olive Trails

Olive Trails is a small, independent collection of travel notes about Cyprus. It started as a set of private reminders — which road to take to a certain beach, where to leave the car in a mountain village, which month a hiking trail is pleasant rather than punishing — and grew into something worth tidying up and putting online.

What you will find here

Each note covers a single area or route: a stretch of coastline, a mountain loop, a walk through an old town. The aim is practical detail rather than superlatives. Where possible, notes say how long things actually take, where parking is, what the place is like at different times of day, and what is worth skipping.

How the notes are made

Every place described has been visited in person, usually more than once and in different seasons. Notes are updated when something changes noticeably, and the publication date at the top of each page shows when it was last written. Opening hours, prices and road conditions change, so treat specific details as a starting point and check locally before you rely on them.

What you will not find

There are no sponsored posts, affiliate links, advertising or paid placements. Nothing here is written in exchange for free stays, meals or tours. There are also no comments or accounts: the site is meant to be read, not to collect anything from you.

The name

Olive trees are everywhere in Cyprus, from roadside groves on the plains to ancient, twisted trunks in mountain villages. Many of the best days described here were spent on small roads lined with them.