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    Default The Luxury Ghost Town....

    No... it's not one of the newly overbuilt towns in China, nor anything that cannot be lived in near Chernobyl.

    I had never heard of Varosha.... but from the accounts of all those who lived there in this Mediterranean paradise where Elizabeth Taylor and Brigit Bardot once leisurely frequented, along with all the rich of Europe... Varosha is still there and still intact.... an oceanfront city of 45,000, the rich seaside suburb of medieval Famagusta Cyprus.

    Since the 1974 Turksih invasion and takeover of the NE 1/3 of Cyprus, the city of Famagusta is an open and busy city in the Turckish Eastern part of Cyprus. But the Greek owned waterside suburb of Varosha, has been fenced off with barbed wire for 40 years.... leaving the town exactly as it was in 1974, albeit the Turks have long since looted all the buildings.

    So today this closed off "bargaining chip" in settling "the Cyprus problem"... is uninhabited... even though all the former residents want to come back, repossess their property, and continue again.

    It really is like something out of a Twilight Zone episode... yes... all those tall beachfront hotels have been empty for 38 years....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTZMSpgRAsI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiFg4Og6JcU


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varosha,_Famagusta

    Map:
    http://wikitravel.org/en/File:Greek_...egions_map.png

    This really is surreal....
    Last edited by Gistok; October-17-14 at 08:23 PM.

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