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[Moonage Daydream]

I'm going to Limassol in a few weeks, and want to know where the crossings into the North are. Last year when in Cyprus I drove through Agios Demetrios and visited Kyrenia for a day. Another day I went to north Nicosia via the Ledra crossing. Which other crossings are now open? Can someone give me a full list of crossings suitable for a car, and let me know which ones have the least queues?

By the way I assume if you have a hire car, you still buy your insurance supplement for the north at the checkpoint?

[detailer]

You can pass from nicosia(kermıa), famagusta and pile.

You need buy insurance only ın kermia I think. You have to buy an insurance.

[cannedmoose]

You can pass from nicosia(kermıa), famagusta and pile.

You need buy insurance only ın kermia I think. You have to buy an insurance.

I didn't know there was a crossing at Famagusta... where is it?

Moonage, detailer also mentioned Pile, on road signs in Cyprus, this is shown as Pyla and is just off the m/way to Protoras and Agia Napa. I don't think this is an official crossing point though, so whether you'll get insurance there I'm not sure. Still, from many accounts the insurance doesn't really cover you for much should you have an accident.

[demetriou_74]

i rented quad bikes and ended up in Pyla. some crazy man chased us in a car and started sayin ''i get you fucked, make noise in my town'' needless to say we turned round and raced back to the rental shop.

[cannedmoose]

''i get you fucked, make noise in my town'' needless to say we turned round and raced back to the rental shop.

Maybe you should have hung around, he might have been offering his 'noisy' daughter to you

[Moonage Daydream]

Thanks to those who replied.
I had read that an additional crossing at Kato Pyrgos had been opened, but that's not much use to me as I'm staying at Limassol.
The Pyla crossing could be useful, but whjere is the Famagusta one?
Is it near Derynia?

[city]

Thanks to those who replied.
I had read that an additional crossing at Kato Pyrgos had been opened, but that's not much use to me as I'm staying at Limassol.
The Pyla crossing could be useful, but whjere is the Famagusta one?
Is it near Derynia?

yes it is, but blame me, I forgot the name of the village. I used that crossing last year and it was somewhere around these villages there...
I think it was very close to Agyios Nicolaos.

[detailer]

Thanks to those who replied.
I had read that an additional crossing at Kato Pyrgos had been opened, but that's not much use to me as I'm staying at Limassol.
The Pyla crossing could be useful, but whjere is the Famagusta one?
Is it near Derynia?

Yes it is near derynia I think. You pass through British base actually not GC police. We call the point "2.5 miles". It is on the from famagusta to larnaca.

Pyla is an official one as well. (According to GC admin., none of them is official anyway.)

[detailer]

You can only get insurance from kermia I think.

[city]

You can only get insurance from kermia I think.

well, we got insurance (with a tourist rented car) at that crossing point near Dherynia last year.