Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
8
Getting Around
bour, Kato Pafos)
in Kato Pafos and Karavella Bus Station in Ktima. A comprehensive bus
schedule booklet is available at both bus stations. Fares cost €1.50 per journey, €5 per day
or €15 per week within the district of Pafos, including rural villages.
Frequent services from Kato Pafos (harbour):
A
Coral Beach
Bus 615, 616; 25 minutes.
A
Geroskipou Beach
Bus 611; 25 minutes. (The beach is 4.5km east of Kato Pafos.)
A
Kato Ktima (market)
Bus 610; 15 minutes.
A
Polis
Bus 626; one hour.
In Kato Pafos, there's a large free car park near the entrance to the Pafos Archaeologic-
al Site. In Ktima, there are car parks on the main square (cnr Gladstonos and Leoforos Ge-
orgiou Griva Digeni) and by Karavella Bus Station.
If you need a
taxi
(
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2693 3301)
, you can call, flag one down or head for one of the plenti-
ful taxi stands across the city. Be aware that taxi drivers will charge an extortionate €8 for
the 3km Kato Pafos-Ktima ride.
THE MUCH-MALIGNED CYPRIOT MOUFLON
Featured as a stylised graphic on the tail fin of Cyprus Airways planes, the Cypriot mouflon
(Ovis orientalis
ophion),
known as
agrino
in Greek, is Cyprus' de facto national symbol. Similar to a wild sheep and native to the
island of Cyprus, it has close cousins on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily, and in Iran. Today, Cyprus' mouflon
population is limited to the dense vegetation of the Pafos Forest on the western side of the Troödos Mountains.
Once treated as vermin, the mouflon was fair game for trigger-happy hunters - by the 1930s there were only
15 alive in Cyprus. Since then an enlightened preservation program has seen numbers rise to around 3000. The
mouflon is a shy, retiring animal and is rarely seen in the wild, as it will disappear into the forest long before your
arrival. The male mouflon sports enormous curved horns and, while not aggressive to humans, uses its horns in
mating battles with other males.
While numbers have reached stable levels, the mouflon is still considered an endangered species. The main
threats nowadays come from forest fires and poachers. For more mouflon info, check the
www.moa.gov.cy/forest
website.
