Prodromos Mountain Walk Troodos Cyprus

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Expert route because half of the path has no sign at all you have to climb up on steep slope rely on GPS or compass. At the top, you able to find a living forest finally where is birds are singing, not killed by hunters. On the top pine forest is so beautiful and a quiet well visible forestry road will guide you until reaching the mountain top where you have to down on even more steep slope on rolling stone, but this part is marked pretty well. Very easy to miss the intersection when you able to return faster, even if did hike longer route just yesterday I did miss the intersection and have climb back to find the right trail. Due to no marks, steep slopes I mark it to expert level and honestly perhaps my nicest hiking experience.

Advanced hiking route used my return path

Prodromos is a village in the province of Limassol found in the geographic region of Southern Marathasa, at a distance of 60 kilometers northwesterly from the city of Limassol.

It is built at an altitude of 1.380 meters from the average sea level and is the only village of Cyprus having such a high altitude.

It accepts a very high average annual rainfall that reaches 922 millimeters. In its region, they are cultivated various species of deciduous fruit trees (apple trees, cherry trees, plum trees, pear-trees, and peach trees). The village of Prodromos is particularly famous for the exceptional quality of its apples. However, the bigger extent of the village is uncultivated. Part of the government-owned forest of Troodos raises in its administrative limits. The bigger water sources not only for Prodromos but also for the entire mountain range of Troodos, are the group sources of Chartzi. Due to works at the “Chromium” mine, almost all groundwater at the region of Prodromos has changed direction.Up to 1962 the deciduous fruit trees of the village, that their extent was about 24 hectares, were irrigated exclusively by the sources of Chartzi and other smaller sources. However, the continuous increasing needs for the irrigation of the new plantations of fruit trees as well as the utilization of the sources Chartzi for the water supply and irrigation of the village, imposed the manufacture in 1962 of the dam of Prodromos having a capacity of 110.000 cubic meters. The dam is found near the main street of Prodromos-Troodos, in the locality "Damaskinari" and from this dam, 23 hectares, that are cultivated with deciduous fruit trees, are irrigated.