Famagusta Ghost City, Ammochostos is nowadays an abandoned area with no life at all. The once perceived as cosmopolitan town, full of energy and potential, has now turned into a dead zone. Four decades ago, time froze in the coastal Cypriot district of Varosha.
Eggs were still boiling on hot stovetops. Children's toys remained strewn across living-room floors. Clothes were left on their hangers inside brimming closets, a testament to the thousands of lives that were abandoned in an instant.
Greek Cypriots thought it was a temporary measure when the Turkish military ordered them out of their homes in Varosha, a district of the city of Famagusta, in the summer of 1974. But 42 years have since come and gone, and Varosha remains a ghost town - a hulking blight that towers over the Mediterranean seascape. Empty apartment windows gaze out over families playing beach volleyball, while barbed-wire fencing cuts a swath across the sand, patrolled by armed soldiers.
There are many of these old and disused mills littering the countryside in Cyprus.
Farm machinery outside a building in Cyprus.
An old fire engine lies abandoned at the side of the road in the mountains in Cyprus. It has a Deutz engine under the bonnet.
A lone grass umbrellla sways in the breeze under the Cyprus evening sun on a deserted beach.
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A lemon growing on a tree in Cyprus.
As the sun gets low the deck chairs empty. Brollies stand on the empty beach near the empty chairs, not a soul about
Cedar Valley is a valley in the Troodos Mountains of central Cyprus. It lies on the southern slopes of Mount Tripylos. The valley is mainly known as a site of the Cyprus cedar.
RAF Troödos is a remote Signals Station run by 27 personnel from Golf Section, Joint Service Signal Unit, Cyprus, and also contains Mount Olympus Radar Station. The station is based deep within the Troödos Mountains.
A small hamlet of red roofed houses nestle into the mountainside in the heart of the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus
