Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Posted 15 years ago
[b]FERRY: ITALY / GREECE - CYPRUS[/b]
The best connection is via Turkey - but it is a long travel.
I even recommend to use a flight from somewhere in the middle of Europe to Cyprus.
If you want to travel to Cyprus without using a plane, you will have to travel by train via [b]Istanbul[/b] (change from the European station to the Asian station) to [b]Karaman[/b]: either by day or night train - couchette is about EUR 10, but you can also get a normal seat.
From [b]Karaman[/b] take a bus in direction of [b]Silifke[/b] and then to [b]Tasucu[/b] where you can find the harbour (in total EUR 10).
Use a ferry from Fergün Shipping: [u]http://www.fergun.net/uk/index.htm[/u]
There are also ferries from [b]Alanya[/b] to [b]Cyprus[/b], but very bad to reach by train.
In the past there was ferry connections even from Italy and Greece (Partras-Limassol).
But they stopped their service as the main destination was Israel. And there they had a security problem the last years.
