You can go the Cypriot village of Lofou from Limassol, after you have travelled a distance of 25 kilometres. From the roundabout on the way to Troodos (A1 motorway), you go on Gianni Kranidioti road on the way to Troodos. After you pass the Polemidia dam, in a small distance you will find yourself on the bridge of the Limnatis river that ends up in the Kourris dam. Immediately after that on your right hand side you have the Alassa village and on the left is the dam. You continue going uphill for another 2 kilometres and you will find signs taking you to a turn on the left and after 10 kilometres of a helical journey you will reach Lofou.
On this 10 kilometre journey it is impossible not to notice that there have been terraces put in place on the surrounding mountains. A million stones are piled up one on another, just to create a narrow strip of arable land. All of this, as we have been told, a few years ago was planted with vines. Lofou had more than 2 thousand residents and wine production was their main occupation. Now, the only thing left are the millions of piled up stones. Travel a little bit back in time, back then where these thousand acres of land were green with vines. How beautiful would it be? Now, all there is, is the colour of the calcium rock. In a few words… a skull place.
Before the entrance of the village, you see the chapel of the Prophet Elias. A chapel built on the edge of a deep cliff that allows the visitor to have a panoramic view, up until the marshes of cape and if you are lucky enough and the weather is good, with no fog, you can also see the sea.
On entering the village you will be surprise. A village built with stones. Houses and streets with stones. Each house has its own architecture, as if there were hundreds of house designers in the village. No house looks like another. Even the outdoors are all different. You will not find two outdoors to be the same.
The streets either go uphill to the peak of a hill or descend to the the lowest point.
Lofou is a very, very beautiful village but it is not suitable for permanent living. There are no services, but the most important, there are no organised job departments. The visitor will only go to Lofou once. To circulate by foot in the village it is very difficult, unless you have served in the special forces. By car it is de facto impossible. There are no services. There is a small shop with some first need products. There is a hotel, but before you get there, give them a call for the prices.
Lofou is an ideal place for writers, poets and for those who want to meditate. For all the rest it is not suitable.
Lofou is an architecturally beautiful village and it is found in the middle of nowhere and that is about it. It does not have the aura of the sea neither the cool wind of the woods.
