Paphos in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Paphos covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Paphos rewards a detour.

The Paphos route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops over about 5.2 km as the crow flies, from Paphos Old Town (Ktima) to Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa and St Paul's Pillar. ≈ 5.2 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Paphos Old Town (Ktima): The upper old town of Paphos, set back from the resort on the ridge, with its covered municipal market, an Ottoman bathhouse, neoclassical lanes, leafy gardens and museums, the everyday Cypriot town above the ancient coast. 1.5 km to the next stop
2. Tombs of the Kings: A vast rock-cut necropolis by the sea, where the nobles of ancient Paphos were buried from the fourth century BC in grand underground tombs with sunken courtyards ringed by columns carved from the living rock. 1.8 km to the next stop
3. Catacomb of Agia Solomoni: An ancient rock-cut catacomb and chapel in Kato Paphos, a place of pilgrimage for centuries, with faded wall paintings, a healing spring and a great tree hung with the votive rags of hopeful visitors. 0.8 km to the next stop
4. Paphos Archaeological Park: The ruins of the ancient capital of Cyprus, a UNESCO site by the sea famous above all for its superb Roman floor mosaics, with grand villas, a theatre, an agora and a ruined fortress. 0.4 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Paphos Castle: The square stone fort that guards the mouth of Paphos harbour, a much-rebuilt castle from Byzantine, Lusignan, Venetian and Ottoman hands, now the emblem of the waterfront and the stage of a summer opera festival. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Kato Paphos Harbour: The lively seafront heart of the resort, a small working harbour of fishing boats and excursion craft below the castle, lined with fish tavernas and cafes, beside the ancient city and its mosaics. 0.6 km to the next stop
3. Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa and St Paul's Pillar: A small stone church standing among the ruins and surviving mosaics of a huge fourth-century basilica, with the pillar where tradition says the Apostle Paul was scourged before converting the Roman governor.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops over about 74 km as the crow flies, from Geroskipou to Akamas Peninsula and the Baths of Aphrodite. ≈ 74 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Geroskipou: A town east of Paphos whose name means 'holy garden', famed for its rare five-domed Byzantine church of Agia Paraskevi with its old frescoes, and for the sweet 'Cyprus delight' made here since the 19th century. 19 km to the next stop
2. Petra tou Romiou (Aphrodite's Rock): The sea stack on a pebble coast southeast of Paphos where, in Greek myth, the goddess Aphrodite rose from the foam of the sea; a famous viewpoint with a legend that swimming around it brings beauty. 6.9 km to the next stop
3. Palaipaphos and the Sanctuary of Aphrodite: The ruins of Old Paphos at Kouklia, site of the ancient Sanctuary of Aphrodite, a pilgrimage centre for the whole classical world where the goddess was worshipped as a black conical stone, now in its museum. 19 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Monastery of Agios Neophytos: A monastery in the hills north of Paphos founded by a twelfth-century hermit who carved his cave retreat from the rock and had it painted with exquisite Byzantine frescoes, beside a later church and museum. 6.9 km to the next stop
2. Coral Bay: The most popular beach near Paphos, a sheltered crescent of pale sand between two headlands with calm, clear, shallow water, and, on the cliff above, the ruins of a Bronze Age settlement of early Greek settlers. 21 km to the next stop
3. Akamas Peninsula and the Baths of Aphrodite: A wild, roadless peninsula at the northwest tip of Cyprus, protected for its gorges, sea caves, turquoise Blue Lagoon and nesting turtles, with the shaded grotto pool where legend says Aphrodite bathed.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Updated: October 10, 2026

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