Pissouri Beach

The beach area has developed since the beginning of the 1980s from a jetty and one small taverna, into what it is today - an informal collection of excellent tavernas, a few shops, some apartments and one hotel. It features beautifully clean and warm water and a sandy/shingle beach.

It is not an overdeveloped resort, as similar areas on Cyprus have become during the same two decades, but like Pissouri village, it has retained a Cypriot atmosphere. It is here that many Cypriots come on Sundays.

The beach itself is clean and safe and rarely crowded. Water sports available in the summer form a number of suppliers and include jet skis and water skiing, etc. There is also a small diving school if you would like to learn to scuba dive during your stay or visit some of the local dive sites.

	However, it isn't dead in winter, it is just as enjoyable to have lunch on New Year's Day looking out over the sea as it is on 15 August - a Cypriot holiday in the summer - and there are just as many people eating in some of the best tavernas at New Year as in the summer.

It's also a regular nesting area for Green and Loggerhead turtles which come ashore to lay their eggs between June and August. There is a local group of 'Turtle Watch' volunteers who patrol the beaches early in the morning looking for nests which are then protected until the young hatch...

Pissouri Beach also features a fine, five star hotel, the Columbia Beach and Columbia Beach Resort if you prefer the finer things in life! The hotel has its own spa, pool al la carte restaurant and beach water sports. See our links page for more details.