Discover Lost Places Cyprus through photos and videos from our own private tours. Explore abandoned villages, forgotten mines, industrial remains and unusual locations that reveal a very different side of the island.
Every place you see here can be visited and experienced with Sancytours. Choose a gallery below, discover its story and find inspiration for your own private Lost Places tour in Cyprus.
Each gallery takes you closer to the hidden stories, forgotten history and unusual places that make Cyprus so fascinating.
Discover Lost Places Cyprus
Beyond the famous beaches, resorts and ancient monuments, Cyprus hides another fascinating world. Abandoned villages, former mining areas, forgotten industrial sites and traces of the island’s more recent history tell stories that many visitors never discover.
Our Lost Places Cyprus galleries show these locations as we experience them during our own tours. Therefore, the photos and videos do not simply present interesting abandoned places. They give you a real impression of destinations that you can explore with Sancytours.
Our private and exclusive tours take you beyond the usual tourist routes. You can discover old mining landscapes, abandoned settlements, forgotten railway remains, unusual historical locations and places where nature slowly reclaims what people once built. Moreover, a private tour gives you time to explore, take photographs and experience each location without the rush of a large group.
If a Lost Place catches your attention, you can visit it with us. Sancytours offers private tours to the locations featured throughout these galleries. In addition, our Infothek provides more background information about selected places, their history and their significance in Cyprus.
Explore the galleries, discover the stories behind these forgotten places and book your own private Lost Places experience with Sancytours.
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Cyprus has a fascinating story hidden beneath its landscape. Cyprus mining history reaches back thousands of years and is closely connected with copper, minerals and the remarkable geology of the island.
The mineral-rich rocks of Cyprus made the island an important centre of copper production in the ancient world. Over the centuries, mining continued to shape not only the economy and history of Cyprus, but also parts of its landscape.
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Cyprus Nature Tours are the perfect way to experience the island beyond beaches and busy tourist areas. Cyprus is a land of contrasts — forested mountains, dramatic coastlines, hidden valleys, red-earth landscapes and quiet viewpoints — and our private Cyprus Nature Tours are designed to bring you directly into this natural diversity.
This category combines Cyprus’ most beautiful scenic highlights with lesser-known places that remain untouched and peaceful. With Cyprus Nature Tours, you don’t just “see nature” — you feel it: the silence, the fresh mountain air, the wild textures of the coast and the deep calm of places where tourism hasn’t taken over.
Choose Your Cyprus Nature Tours Experience
Below this overview page you will find our individual Cyprus Nature Tours listed separately. Each tour has its own character: mountains, coastlines, waterfalls, scenic road trips or hidden valleys. You can choose the tour that matches your travel style — or simply tell us what kind of nature you love most, and we will recommend the perfect Cyprus Nature Tours route for you.
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Some short informations about your Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour
The Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour is designed for travelers who want to experience the island beyond classic attractions. This Tour focuses on impressive natural scenery, hidden places and remarkable sights shaped by history and time. It combines untouched landscapes, colorful ground formations, abandoned industrial sites and scenic coastal views into one unique experience.
On this Cyprus Nature & Sightseeing Tour, you travel through fertile valleys, pass endless orchards and wooded areas, and explore landscapes where nature slowly reclaims former industrial zones. The route connects two outstanding locations – Skouriotissa and Lefke – and even crosses the border to Northern Cyprus.
This tour is ideal for explorers, photographers and curious travelers looking for nature, sightseeing highlights and hidden places in Cyprus.
- Pick-Up about 8:30 at your hotel, depending where you´re staying
- Please bring to your Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour comfortable shoes with you
Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour Highlights:
– Private day Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour
– Discover the charming copper mines Skourioutissa and Lefke
– Visit during your Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour lost places
– Enjoy lovely landscapes by the way
– A combination of nature, history and industrial heritage
– Comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle
– Diverse photo opportunities across changing landscapes
It’s Cyprus at its purest: peaceful, colorful, and makes your Cyprus Nature and Sightseeing Tour Tour unforgettable.
The Cyprus Nature Tour is designed for travelers who want to experience a different side of the island beyond classic attractions. This private tour combines spectacular natural scenery, hidden places and fascinating remains of Cyprus’ mining history in one unique experience.
Look into the impressive mining area of Skouriotissa, where dramatic rock formations, extraordinary colors and an emerald-green mining lake create an almost surreal landscape. Then cross into Northern Cyprus and Lefke, where forgotten industrial history meets the Mediterranean: stand by the sea in front of the old loading facilities, discover the striking yellow mining trains with their ore wagons and see an old tugboat resting as a shipwreck along the coast.
This Cyprus Nature Tour is ideal for explorers, photographers and curious travelers looking for nature, Lost Places and unusual sights in Cyprus.
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Discover a side of Cyprus most visitors never see
Beyond the beaches and picturesque villages lies another Cyprus – raw, colourful and almost forgotten.
On this private Cyprus tour, leave the familiar tourist routes behind and discover abandoned mines, intensely coloured lakes and fascinating relics slowly being reclaimed by nature.
An extraordinary journey for explorers, nature lovers and photographers looking for unique places in Cyprus and a side of the island most visitors never see.
Whether it is your first visit or you already know the island, this tour reveals a Cyprus that few visitors ever experience.
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Copper Mines of Mathiatis. Colors of the Forgotten Earth – Some short informations about your event
Cyprus Copper Mines were for thousands of years, Cyprus was the beating heart of the ancient copper world. A land whose red earth and shimmering ores shaped civilizations across the Mediterranean. Today, the traces of this immense history lie scattered in the landscape like open secrets: abandoned mine pits glowing in surreal colours, silent processing plants reclaimed by wild nature, forgotten tunnels carved deep into the rock, and a landscape where human ambition once burned as fiercely as the Cypriot sun.
On our Cyprus Copper Mines Tour, you explore these haunting remnants of a bygone era. Vast open Cyprus Copper Mines shine in vibrant reds, oranges and golds, cliffs display surreal mineral patterns and iron caps, and lake basins shimmer in dramatic hues.
The Cyprus Copper Mines Lost Places Tour is ideal for travellers who seek the extraordinary: explorers fascinated by industrial archaeology, photographers drawn to surreal landscapes, and anyone who wants to witness Cyprus beyond beaches and cities — raw, powerful and real.
- Pick-Up about 8:30 at your hotel, depending where you´re staying
- please bring comfortable shoes and sun protection with you
Event Highlights:
– Private explorer tour to the abandoned copper mines of Mathiatis
– Spectacular natural colors and surreal rock formations
– Discover ancient mining history dating back thousands of years
– Perfect for adventurous photography and geology enthusiasts
– Relaxed and private atmosphere – just for you
– Pick-up and return service from Larnaca and Agia Napa districts
– English or German-speaking private guide
Book your Lost Places Tour – Copper Mines of Mathiatis. Colors of the Forgotten Earth today – and uncover the mysteries!
