Exploring the Mountains

Took some time this afternoon to enjoy a drive in the mountains. The sky was cloudy most of the time but the cooler mountain air felt refreshing. Demetris wanted to see a radar control at the top of one mountain and we went as close as we could. On the way there we stopped along the road and discovered a memorial to the soldiers killed trying to defend Cyprus against the British army in the 1950's. Cyprus was a British colony at that time and the revolutionary guerrillas, as they are called, fought for the country's independence. An agreement was brokered between the countries, allowing Cyprus to be independent with the condition that the British will continue to have army bases here. The memorial was of a large bird statue (representing freedom) looking down a hill onto a statue of a fallen soldier.

Landing space for a helicopter near the memorial

The bird statue

The fallen soldier

View of the soldier from the bird statue

Monastery visible from the memorial

Radar control tower

Cute little church along the road

Inside of the above church