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[Daniella]

Ciao Deniz ( and Bill ! ) I enlarged your shot, It looks like an iron oxide outcrop, by the way it could be also everything else..
Do you remember if the rock besides are made of limestone?
I ask you 'cause red colors could be also due to soil surface alteration..calcareous rocks are commonly alterated by wheathering.

As a general concept all the Pentadaktylos chain is made of sedimentary rocks ( for what I can remember, as I told you before we were cleansed from kirenia like many of you)
Any suggestion?

Yep, the surrounding areas are definitely calcifoerrous.

I will post more tonight.

Bravo cumpari
(try to remember where aproximately the pictures were taken)

[Oracle]

Daniella, have you ever explored the Pentadaktylos range?

Not yet Deniz. I will go there when that area will be free from Turkish occupation.

More people like Daniella, please!

[denizaksulu]

Ciao Deniz ( and Bill ! ) I enlarged your shot, It looks like an iron oxide outcrop, by the way it could be also everything else..
Do you remember if the rock besides are made of limestone?
I ask you 'cause red colors could be also due to soil surface alteration..calcareous rocks are commonly alterated by wheathering.

As a general concept all the Pentadaktylos chain is made of sedimentary rocks ( for what I can remember, as I told you before we were cleansed from kirenia like many of you)
Any suggestion?

Yep, the surrounding areas are definitely calcifoerrous.

I will post more tonight.

Bravo cumpari
(try to remember where aproximately the pictures were taken)

Try? Dont believe everything you here about me on this forum. I have photographs to remind me too

See you tonight

Ciao!!

[rigsby]

I,ve just returned from three weeks in Cyprus and I always like to take a trip to the Troodos.I think the true Cypriots live in the small villages dotted around hillsides just really friendly.We stopped at a small village this year at about lunch time for a drink and something to eat,a lady was sweeping outside her taverna and we asked if she could do us a sandwich and something to drink,she invited us in and laid on sandwiches and drinks,as we ate, her husband came in with buckets of fruit, plums,figs,lemons and limes,he chatted away to us asking were we were from ect and telling us about the time he spent in the UK,his wife walked over and put a large plate of plums and figs on the table and said its on the house. It came out in the conversation that they wasn,t even open,just magic

[Get Real!]

I think the true Cypriots live in the small villages dotted around hillsides just really friendly.

You’re not wrong there… you’ll find that up in the Troodos range the Cypriots were undisturbed for centuries and pretty much self-governing… the lazy Ottomans couldn’t be bothered climbing up the steep dirt paths and that’s why you’ll find that hardly any “Turkish Cypriots” lived at altitudes past 1K or 2K feet.

[denizaksulu]

I think the true Cypriots live in the small villages dotted around hillsides just really friendly.

You’re not wrong there… you’ll find that up in the Troodos range the Cypriots were undisturbed for centuries and pretty much self-governing… the lazy Ottomans couldn’t be bothered climbing up the steep dirt paths and that’s why you’ll find that hardly any “Turkish Cypriots” lived at altitudes past 1K or 2K feet.

How high is Kakopetria?

My maths teacher was from there. He and his large family must have been the exception to the rule.

Anyway as a rule the first Ottomans preferred to live near the garrisons in towns and forts in safety from the murderous locals. Life was sweet you know, even for them.

[Nikitas]

Keeping away from mountain areas was a Turkish practice in Greece too. No value in mountain land I guess. In some areas of Crete, Mani and Roumeli no Turks ever bothered to even visit to collect taxes. Having climbed some of those places I can see why.

[denizaksulu]

Keeping away from mountain areas was a Turkish practice in Greece too. No value in mountain land I guess. In some areas of Crete, Mani and Roumeli no Turks ever bothered to even visit to collect taxes. Having climbed some of those places I can see why.

I hope Malapapas does not read by next Turkish saying.

It is to describe laziness.

"Elma piş ağzıma düş".

Trans. 'Oh apple, ripen! Then FALL into my mouth'. Needs no explanation I think.

[denizaksulu]

Daniella



This is the area (from Google Earth), The pic is just to the west of the Pentadaktylos peaks on the alternative road from Nicosia/Famagusta to Kyrenia.

The uppermost yellow pin is the point where the Iron oxide vein is. The lower one is KAR/Kyrenia Animal Rescue. Run by a group of lovely English/British ladies. They care for about 500 dogs and some cats too. Some have been relocated to Germany btw.

On the enlarges pic you can get the co-ordinates of the 'vein'. Its right on the left hand side travelling north. You cant miss it.

[denizaksulu]

Daniella, have you ever explored the Pentadaktylos range?

Not yet Deniz. I will go there when that area will be free from Turkish occupation.

More people like Daniella, please!

You better get your skates on Oracle before the north becomes unrecognisable. It will be a complete concrete jungle complete with gigantic 'carbuncles'/quarries dotted everywhere (thanks to your embargoes), complete deforrestation (as related to olive and carob tree groves. And the total destruction of the citrus from around the Morphou region.

I supose you will remember the north by studying sepia photographs.