{"id":7717,"date":"2004-07-24T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/24\/trip-to-kykkos-monastery\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"trip-to-kykkos-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/24\/trip-to-kykkos-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Kykkos monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040725-kykkos.jpg\" alt=\"Kykkos\"><\/p>\n<p>Today Hazard, his mother and I went for a trip to Kykkos monastery.  It is a very known place and a major tourist attraction.  You&#8217;ll have to drive about 80 kilometers over a serpentine road from Limassol to the direction of Trodos and then some more, but it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The nature is spectacular over those places.  The air is fresh and everyone is glad to see another potential customer for a souvenier.  I was not ready to treat my shorts for anything else, so they didn&#8217;t actually allowed me inside.  That is not a problem since photography is prohibited inside &#8211; so why go?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a whole bunch of pictures and most of them (wow, I am getting good in bright sunlight with a polarizer) turned out good.  I have posted them <a href=\"\/photos\/2004\/2004-07-24_Trip_to_Kykkos_Monastery\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today Hazard, his mother and I went for a trip to Kykkos monastery. It is a very known place and a major tourist attraction. You&#8217;ll have to drive about 80 kilometers over a serpentine road from Limassol to the direction of Trodos and then some more, but it&#8217;s worth it. The nature is spectacular over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/24\/trip-to-kykkos-monastery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trip to Kykkos monastery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7339,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/31\/trip-to-trodos\/","url_meta":{"origin":7717,"position":0},"title":"Trip to Trodos","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 31, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday - the adventure day. 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