DK Travel : Cyprus : Editor's choice

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Bourekia

If you can find room for dessert, these tiny pastries stuffed with curd cheese and honey will fill the last corner.
Brandy

Drunk on its own or in a variety of cocktails. The brandy sour is the island’s own cocktail and very palatable.
Carslberg

The quirky tour of the Cyprus subsidiary of the huge Danish brewing company includes not only a fascinating glimpse of the brewing and bottling process but admission to a natural history museum and mini-zoo within the brewery grounds.
Chryssorogiatissa Monastery

This monastery produces some of the island’s best wines. Within is a museum of religious paraphernalia.
Cocktails

From the brandy sour to the saucy Sex on the Beach, Cypriot bars offer an extensive cocktail list.
Coffee

Starbucks and Costa Coffee are here, but you should also try ellinikos kafes , served in a tiny cup and thick with sugar and caffeine.
Deryneia

This farming village looks over to the Turkish-occupied North, towards Famagusta, and you can make out the battlements of the walled city in the distance. Deryneia also has three pretty churches: 15th-century Agia Marina, 17th-century Agios Georgios and the church of the Panagia (see Famagusta Gulf Viewpoint).
Elia Venetian Bridge

This arched stone bridge – one of many in the area – crossing a stream bed is testament to the skills of the Venetians who drove a highway through these hills. Mule trains carried copper ore from the Troodos mines to the harbour at Pafos.
Encomi-Alasia

The best-preserved Bronze Age settlement on the island.
ETKO

ETKO’s best-known product was once its Emva sherry-style wine. However, membership of the European Union has forced the winery (along with its rivals) to rebrand some of its products, as EU rules insist sherry may only come from Spain. A tasting follows the tour.