Akamas is a wild area in Paphos Region in the northwest of Cyprus. It covers an area of about 230 square kilometres.

It is named after the son of Theseus, hero of the Trojan Wars and founder of the city-kingdom of Soli.

We’ve been living in Cyprus for a whole week now.

Today’s Saturday, so we decided to call it the weekend and relax a bit.  And of course being the weekend, it’s also the first cloudy day since we arrived!

One of the great things about living in Cyprus is lots of mates come out for holidays and I get to show them around our favourite bits of Cyprus.

This time it was Baggy - a guy I've spent a lot of time at the lineside with in the UK photographing steam.  He was here with two mates Steve and Tony - also keen photographers.

So we planned a day out to check out some of the sights of Paphos District.

I've wanted to go and have a look at the Avakas Gorge for a while - and now I've been there, seen it, done it (but I couldn't get a T-shirt!).

The steepest and deepest bit of the Avakas Gorge isn't very long.  If you've got the energy, you can walk from the coast road near Agios Georgios right up through the gorge to Arodes. 

We chose the easy way - parking the car at the bottom and then walking up to the gorge from there.

On the way back from walking the Avakas Gorge, we stopped off to watch the last light on the sea at Toxeftra. 

This coastline of Cyprus is perfect for sunset shots, but alas, today was unusual in having cloud cover so nothing doing on the golden glow on the sea front.

Despite that, the sea fascinates me.  We drove our (rented!) 4×4 over some pretty rough ground to get down to the sea, and it was then I discovered some amazing spikey rock formations.