1st day of three-day program

Οn Saturday morning in 19/1/2019 we arrived from Limassol to

Pedoulas village, in Environmental education center “Stelios”. Here we

met center’s people who helped us to get settled in place. At center we

had the opportunity to meet up an excellent environmental program full

of activities about minerals and soil rocks of Troodos mountains. Ms.

Simone Partakidou, was the person who controlled the program and

with her useful knowledge and experience help us to enrich our

understanding. Additionally we played in a teamwork, a game around

Cyprus’ geology and ground. In afternoon’s schedule we visited

center’s chemistry laboratory for minerals’ studying and experiments.

Then each person had to work with their team about their projects. The

day ended with a pleasant documentary “Earthquake” (movie 2017).

2nd day of three day program

On Sunday, the second day of our program, we started the day by

working on our projects. Later, the schedule included a guide around.

Ms. Simone showed us the beauty of Pedoulas, such us the Byzantium

church of archangel Michael, the village’s church of holly cross and we

admired the amazing view of place. Moreover we spoke about cherry

trees, plane trees, cedars and latzia, the area’s most famous trees and

plants. Our afternoon was full of hard work on our projects. Nevertheless

the entertainment was very important part in our trip, so in our last night

we spent the night by dancing and singing.

3rd day of three-day program

Students: Neovi Michael, Penelope Loucaidou

http://www.geoparks.erasmusproject.eu

ARRIVAL

Teamwork game about geology and ground

Movie night

Experiments

Minerals studying

On Monday the last day of the program we started the day with a trip to

a gorgeous village Kalopanayiotis. Ms. Simone was once again the

guide of our trip, she told us about the history of kalopanayiotis and she

showed us around. When we were going around the village we met a

caring old lady and she told us about the history of kalopanayiotis. Then

we continued our trip and we followed the path for the famous medicinal

waters. Then we went to the second destination of our trip which was

Skouries. Skouries is an area with huge mountains that contains cooper.

The last destination of our trip was Troodos mountains which is one of

the highest mountain range of Cyprus. There we had the opportunity to

play around with snow and enjoy the majestic view on the top of the

mountains.

Skouriotissa

Healing Waters

Troodos mountains

The Venetian bridge

Environmental education three-day program at Pedoulas village 2018-2019 TRAINING FOR STUDENTS IN CYPRUS (19-21 January)