Nicosia Like a Local: Customized Private Tour
Overview
Inclusions
- Local guide ("Lokafyer"
- Customized private walking tour
What to expect
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Cyprus Museum, Museum St., Nicosia Cyprus
This is a customized walking tour so the exact itinerary will depend on the duration of the tour and the interests of the travelers and the Lokafyer. If you have any particular interests or would like to see something specific in the city, please request this in advance of the tour.
Additional information
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Lokafy tours provide a general overview of the city with practical information from a local’s perspective, not detailed historical facts
- In case travellers would like to include a visit to an attraction, they would need to cover the cost of entrance for themselves and also the Lokafyer (local guide)
- Tours are entirely personalized, please provide the start time, meeting place and information about you so that we can organize the tour
- This is a walking tour. We recommend wearing comfortable shoes
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Children below 3 years old are free of charge
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Face masks required for travelers in public areas
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
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My wife and I had a wonderful tour with Iliana! We've probably done a twenty or more private tours during our travels through the years and Iliana is one of the best guides we have had. That she has experience as a teacher helps tremendously, but what separates her from the average tour guide i...
My wife and I had a wonderful tour with Iliana! We've probably done a twenty or more private tours during our travels through the years and Iliana is one of the best guides we have had. That she has experience as a teacher helps tremendously, but what separates her from the average tour guide is her enthusiasm and great personality. We had a wonderful tour of Nicosia with Iliana and strongly recommend her.I must admit I had no idea what to expect before I met Ute. As it turns out, she was an amazing German lady who had lived through East/West Germany, allowing her to make many comparisons (and highlite the differences) to the current state of Cyprus. Also, helped smooth my pass through passport ch...
I must admit I had no idea what to expect before I met Ute. As it turns out, she was an amazing German lady who had lived through East/West Germany, allowing her to make many comparisons (and highlite the differences) to the current state of Cyprus. Also, helped smooth my pass through passport checkpoints, which was made unnecessarily difficult by the officers. I could not have ased for a better guide!We much enjoyed our tour of old Nicosia, a city Nigel had visited as part of the UN peacekeeping force in 1970 and had ever since promised to show Jane. Of course it had much changed. The nature of the tour was such that we were able to discuss this with the guide, to talk about his own reaction...
We much enjoyed our tour of old Nicosia, a city Nigel had visited as part of the UN peacekeeping force in 1970 and had ever since promised to show Jane. Of course it had much changed. The nature of the tour was such that we were able to discuss this with the guide, to talk about his own reactions to the changes and to ask to see certain places. We were met at our hotel and returned to our hotel, having done a circular walk, and having been taught much about the city. Jane took a lot of photos without feeling she was disrupting the tour. We felt as if the whole thing was for us and us alone, not part of a package learned by rote and imposed upon us.Ein wunderbarer Spaziergang durch die beiden Teile der geteilten Hauptstadt. Vielen Dank an Frau Ute Woermann-Stylianou. Sie hat jahrelang in Nikosia gelebt und als Deutsch-Lehrerin gearbeitet. Das Goethe-Zentrum (heutzutage Goethe-Institut), an dem sie unterrichtete, befindet sich zwischen den z...
Ein wunderbarer Spaziergang durch die beiden Teile der geteilten Hauptstadt. Vielen Dank an Frau Ute Woermann-Stylianou. Sie hat jahrelang in Nikosia gelebt und als Deutsch-Lehrerin gearbeitet. Das Goethe-Zentrum (heutzutage Goethe-Institut), an dem sie unterrichtete, befindet sich zwischen den zwei Checkpoints, direkt in der UN-Bufferzone, die weder von der Republik Zypern noch von den türkischen Besatzungskräften kontrolliert wird. Frau Woermann verbindet auf eine sehr interessante Weise ihre persönliche Lebensgeschichte mit der tragischen Geschichte der Insel.Fue en Español. Domina genial el idioma. Nicosia es una ciudad por ser la única capital Europea dividida, como lo estuvo Berlín, y ella nos ayudo a entender lo extraño y compleja de la situación en esta ciudad centenaria.
Fue en Español. Domina genial el idioma. Nicosia es una ciudad por ser la única capital Europea dividida, como lo estuvo Berlín, y ella nos ayudo a entender lo extraño y compleja de la situación en esta ciudad centenaria.I admittedly already had a troubled and stressful arrival in Cyprus, but those feelings didn’t cloud my judgement of this tour. 1) I asked for the tour to exclusively focus on the division and how it impacts Nicosia. Despite my guide agreeing in his message, he continued to take me to sites comp...
I admittedly already had a troubled and stressful arrival in Cyprus, but those feelings didn’t cloud my judgement of this tour. 1) I asked for the tour to exclusively focus on the division and how it impacts Nicosia. Despite my guide agreeing in his message, he continued to take me to sites completely unrelated to the conflict, perhaps most egregiously to a series of souvenir shops. I found more interesting things in random side streets than the exploits of the main tour. 2) He told me to meet him in the main square. I parked near the square and waited. Then he told me to go to a mosque and gave me directions. I followed the coordinates he gave me and I ended up in North Nicosia. He then told me the tour began in South Nicosia and asked me why I was in the north and where I specifically was. After I repeatedly showed my map coordinates, he told me he didn’t know where I was and ordered me back to the crossing point. 3) Due to asking for a 30 minute delay for the tour, added to the additional 30 minute delay due to the meeting point, I had to cut the tour short for timing reasons. 4) The guide was inattentive to what I told him, for example, asking me if I had arrived that day in Cyprus after I’d already explained in great detail my issues from yesterday in landing and finding accommodation. 5) Perhaps most importantly, my guide was noticeably unenthusiastic, walked completely without urgency, and relayed an extremely impersonal, surface level retelling of Cyprus history. I did not learn one thing from this tour. Perhaps for this reason you will understand the rating I provided.