Beach
Governor’s Beach
Brilliant white chalk cliffs drop to a string of small dark-sand coves and clear water — the contrast of pale rock and deep sea is unmistakably Cypriot.
SummerDirections
All free spots
South Cyprus · Limassol Coast
Pissouri Bay
Beach · Pissouri
A long, calm crescent bay tucked beneath farmland and white cliffs, ringed by tavernas — sheltered, shallow and made for a slow swim at sundown.
Plan your visit
Visiting Pissouri Bay
Pissouri Bay is a wide, sheltered crescent of sand and shingle below Pissouri village, popular for calm swimming, watersports and a relaxed line of beachfront tavernas.
Getting there
Off the A6 between Limassol and Paphos; follow signs down to the bay (the village itself sits up the hill).
Parking
Parking behind the beachfront.
Best time to go
Late afternoon, when the cliffs glow and the water is warm and calm.
More around Limassol Coast
Beach
Lady’s Mile Beach
A flat, mile-long ribbon of hard sand on the Akrotiri peninsula with shallow warm water and a string of laid-back beach bars — the locals’ long-walk-and-swim beach.
SummerDirections
Nature
Akrotiri Salt Lake
The island’s largest inland lake, where flamingos gather in their thousands each winter. A flat birding trail and hide skirt the water beneath the Fasouri eucalyptus avenue.
Nov–Mar · flamingosDirections