Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour – Silent Giants of Steel

There is a place where steel giants sleep beneath the open sky, where rusting armor stands frozen in time, and where silence has replaced the thunder of engines. You can join with us a Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour. This forgotten military landscape, simply known as the Tank Cemetery, is one of the most atmospheric Lost Places in Cyprus.

Scattered across rugged ground and shaped by decades of sun, wind and salt, the abandoned tanks and armored vehicles create a haunting tableau of history reclaimed by nature. Their shattered hulls, twisted metal and fading camouflage tell stories without words — stories of another era, a different world, a past that lingers quietly in the air.

Here, among the skeletal remains of machines once built for power, you walk through a surreal open-air museum of decay and memory. It is a place for explorers, photographers, dreamers and those who seek meaning in forgotten things.

Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour – Silent Giants of Steel

Your Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour begins with a journey into a remote and rarely visited stretch of coastline, where the landscape opens wide and the horizon feels impossibly distant. As we approach, the shapes of abandoned armored vehicles rise slowly from the terrain — silent, motionless and strangely majestic.
A Dozen of tanks, their turrets shattered and their steel bodies weathered by decades, stand arranged across the land like guardians of a forgotten frontier. Some lie half-buried in the earth, others lean at fractured angles, while a few remain eerily intact, staring out toward the sea. This is not a museum; it is a place untouched by tourism, left exactly as time has shaped it.

Walking among the tanks feels otherworldly. The rusted textures glow in shades of red and orange, wild plants curl through open hatches, and the ground is littered with fragments of history that nature has slowly claimed. Your guide shares stories about how this location came into being, the role these vehicles once served, and how such an extraordinary place could quietly exist beyond the awareness of most visitors to Cyprus.

The Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour is designed for those who seek the unusual — explorers who appreciate raw, powerful scenery, photographers drawn to strong contrasts and dramatic subjects, and travellers who want to experience a side of Cyprus that lies far from beaches, crowds and well-worn paths. With no groups and no rush, the tour unfolds entirely at your pace, giving you the time and freedom to capture the essence of the place in your own way.

This is a journey into silence, memory and the slow beauty of decay — a reminder that even the strongest creations eventually surrender to nature and time.

Have a look to our pictures from this tour. They say more than words what you´re expected.

Please note

• We will pick you up at your hotel or arrange a meeting point with you. We will then take you on our Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour, without any stress, hectic pace and time pressure of other guests.  So our tour with you is very personal.
• We will pick you up at your hotel at 9:30. We won’t be doing any long walks, but you’ll still want to wear suitable footwear and, depending on the time of year, bring a hat or cap to protect you from the sun, or a jacket in case it gets a bit chilly.
• All in all, your  Tank Cemetery Lost Places Tour lasts about 2 hours, it depends on you, because this event is only for you and your family, partner or friends that you book in.
• It is not uncommon for the area to be closed due to military exercises. In this case we will refund 75% of the tour price. Please understand that this is a small risk. If necessary we can walk to the tanks. If this is possible and you are willing to walk about 20 minutes, there will be no refund.

Our special service for you:

We will be happy to pick you up from your hotel free of charge if you are staying in the Agia Napa – Protaras – Paralimni region, or in Larnaca Destrict
(e.g. Oroklini – Pyla – Livadia – Larnaca City). Pick up is also possible for more distant routes, but we will then charge a small surcharge.

We are happy to accept your booking by email. Or book now using our online booking form. We will take care of the rest and look forward to seeing you.

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