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Some days in Cyprus are about the beach. This one is about everything the beach isn't, quiet mountain villages, the hum of bees, and a lunch you helped grow and cook yourself. Tucked into the hills above Larnaca is a cluster of villages that have built their identity around exactly this kind of day, and it might be the most sensory, slow-living experience the island has to offer. The Honey Villages of Larnaca Up in the mountainous heart of the Larnaca district sits a group of

If you've read about Cyprus's farm to table scene in the Troodos mountains, you might expect the same story here on the east coast. It's a different one, and worth telling honestly. Protaras, Paralimni, and Ayia Napa sit in a region called the Kokkinochoria, the "Red Villages," and its fame has nothing to do with wine. It's about red soil, and what grows in it. The Land Behind the Beaches The Kokkinochoria stretches across the southeastern tip of Cyprus and takes its name fro