By Heidi Trautmann …..

Vounous…it sounds mystic…it is mystic, it is the story of the past of Cyprus. The island of Cyprus has always held a great importance for the people living around its circumference, only a stone’s throw away from the coasts in the north and the east and south, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Hittites took to their boats in those days of the Bronze Age, landed, settled, were conquered, started trading, and finally left samples of their culture in the soil of Cyprus, in the caves of the Five Finger Mountains, the Kyrenia mountain range. They buried their dead and gave them goods to have a comfortable journey into the land of the dead.