Smigies Picnic Site - Pissouromoutti Trail - Akamas - Paphos - Cyprus

This is the shortest and the nicest trail here, highly recommended. Even in August at early afternoon I found several shadows I wasn't exposed at all walk. This is rare gift at Akamas Peninsula. Another joy was fresh breeze almost everywhere, made walk to very pleasant. I didn't expect this at summer time at altitude 400m max.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ole3tcYTSSk&feature=share
Smigies picnic site is an excellent star point you can left you car in shadow places. Plus it has running water, WC etc.

GPS coordinates of the starting point: Lat: 35.023417 Lon: 32.333405
GPS coordinates of the ending point: Lat: 35.023417 Lon: 32.333405

Altitude of the starting point: 285m
Altitude of the highest peak: 400m
Altitude of the end peak: 285m
Starting point: Smigies picnic site.
Length: 3km
Estimated duration: 2 hours
Difficulty rate: 2 (upward and downward gradients around the hill)

Points of interest: There are many points of exceptional view along the trail, but the most impressive view is from the top of the hill. Here, you can seamlessly enjoy nature all around you (toward the south coast: Tzioni, Geranissos, Lara, Agios Georgios Pegeias, and toward the north coast: Chrysochou Bay). Part of the trail passes through a pine forest that offers shade on warm summer days, making the walk particularly unique and enjoyable. Smigies picnic site has drinking water flowing directly to the area from a spring.

Flora: While hiking you can study the indigenous plants: Phoenician juniper (Juniperus phoenicea), lentisk (Pistacia lentiscus), terebinths (Pistacia terebinthus), rockroses (Cistus creticus, Cistus monspeliensis etc), wild thyme (Thymus capitatus).
https://in-cyprus.com/pissouromoutti-circular-pafos-paphos-district-akamas-forest-nature-trail/

Pissouromoutti (Πισσούρομουττι in Greek) is one of the table-top mountain of the Akamas Peninsula in the north-west of Cyprus. Like its neighbours it is a rather small mountain but with only 419m, it still is one of the highest mountains in this part of the island. Located close to the centre of the peninsula it thus is a wonderful lookout peak with coasts on three sides of it and the Troodos Range far in the distance on the fourth.
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The whole Akamas Peninsula is made up from limestone rock and thanks to its age and exposure to wind and weather much of it has eroded away already. What remains are low coastal plains with occasional canyons and flat topped mountains in between. Pissouromoutti, like its neighbours has a table-top summit with the size of half a football field. The summit plateau tilts to the east, from which the normal route leads to the top. On the three other sites the summit is surrounded by low but vertical walls, which offer a more amusing routes to the top. The walls have faces up to 50m high through which gullies and couloirs cut through to the top. The western face, for example, offers several scrambles up to UIAA II.
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Pissouromoutti is located to the south of Smigies, the largest and tallest of the table-top mountains, right across a saddle, in which a large picnic area has been built. Using this as a trailhead you can reach the top of Pissouromoutti in little more than half an hour. However, much more interesting is the hike from Loutro Aphroditi (Baths of Aphrodite) from where you can hike a loop, including the summits of Moutti tis Sotiras, Smigies and Pissouromoutti. The loop follows some of the most popular nature trails, which the ministry of forestry of Cyprus has established in the area: The Aphrodite, Adonis and Smigies trails. Only the final ascent to Pissouromoutti follows a largely unmarked but easily visible path.
https://www.summitpost.org/pissouromoutti/644587