Larnaca Salt Lake — Attraction in Larnaca

It is an amazing lake full of salt. It is just amazing. The smell of waters is wonderful I recommend it. The nature is everywhere. The water is full of microorganisms and shrimps. But do not fool your self and think that those shrimps will be tasty on a grill. If you eat them you will turn pink just like the flamingos that roam the area. You can find flamingos when it starts to rain in Cyprus and the lake becomes full, which depends on the planes that spray our clouds every now and then. The best part is mosquitoes. 10 minutes near Larnaca you will be reminded of the existence of this salt lake as thousands near to millions of mosquitoes will drink every last drop of your blood while leaving you with an unbearable need to scratch the skin off your flesh. Otherwise 5/5 for...

Larnaca Salt Lake is a complex network of four salt lakes of different sizes to the west of the city of Larnaca. The largest is lake Aliki, followed by lake Orphani, lake Soros and lake Spiro. They form the second largest salt lake in Cyprus after the Limassol Salt Lake. Besides its picturesque beauty, the lake is the haunt of 85 species of water-birds with estimated populations between 20,000–38,000. It is one of the important migratory passages through Cyprus. Among them are 2,000–12,000 flamingoes which spend the winter months there feeding off populations of the brine shrimp Artemia salina. A...

It’s been one of the best sunset in my live!!! I really was shocked when I saw this beauty! I think that we were lucky enough to catch such wonderful sunset after the rain!

We actually was going to visit this place only because of flamingos, but when we saw this marvelous view we forgot about flamingos and decided to enjoy this sunset over the Larnaca Lake)

It’s been in December when the water just started to appear here ( because in the summer time here is only salt and mug).

If you wanna see the best view of this lake you should go there when it’s no wind at all and closer...