Pan Handle

When you travel north of Famagusta, along the Bay of Famagusta, you will arrive at the little fisherman's village Bogaz. Here starts the Karpaz peninsula that is the easternmost part of Cyprus. The peninsula stretches out as a handle of a frying pan, which has led to its nick name: "Pan Handle." Karpaz is sparsely inhabited and is almost free of heavy industry. You may breathe clean and lovely air. Good conditions for vegetation make exuberant animal and vegetable life. Here you find turtles such as the species Caretta caretta and the rare Chelonia mydas. In the villages of Karpaz there's the unshakeable calmness that is so typical for human settlements in this part of the Mediterranean.