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Many of you know Fragmata, the Cyprus reservoir dashboard I regularly post on there. I love the Island so much that I can't stop, and there is another thing that has bothered me for a while.

This one's a joint project with my friend Ivan Agafonov: Monopatia — a free, open guide to hiking trails across Cyprus.

Why we built it. Planning a hike here is weirdly frustrating. The trail info is scattered — the Forest Department has one list, Paphos its own portal, Pissouri its own, individual villages their own — none of them linked or complete, and sometimes the online map doesn't even match the wooden signboard at the trailhead. The big global apps don't rescue you either: AllTrails has almost no real coverage of Cyprus, and Wikiloc is a pile of overlapping user tracks where you can't tell a maintained Forestry trail from someone's random detour. So most people end up hiking the same three trails they already know, or gambling a Saturday morning on a vague description.

So Ivan started doing it properly — finding the physical signboard for each official trail, then hand-tracing the route in Strava, point by point — and I turned that into something you can actually navigate. It's now 183 verified trails (179 with GPS tracks), 1,413 km and ~43,000 m of climbing across all 10 districts, every track checked against the real signboard rather than scraped off the internet.

What that actually solves, day to day:

• "Where do I take the kids on Saturday?" — you see the distance, elevation profile and difficulty before you leave the car park, and can filter to kid-friendly graded trails. No more committing the family to something that turns into a 400 m scramble.
• "Somewhere near me, right now." — the Near Me view sorts trails by driving time from where you are, so you're not driving an hour to walk twenty minutes.
• "It's 38 °C — where can I even hike?" — that's literally the piece we just published: high Troodos forests that run 10–12 °C cooler than the coast, and shaded waterfall gorges (Caledonia, Millomeris) where you can get in the water.
• "I want a waterfall / canyon / sea-cave / monastery walk." — themed filters for exactly that mood.
• "Just get me there and keep me on the path." — one-tap GPX download straight to your watch or phone or simply use live map tracking in the app.
• "How much of the island have I actually done?" — connect Strava and it auto-matches your activities to trails and tracks what you've completed. Fair warning: both of us were sure we'd hiked half the island; it was under 30%.

No ads, no signup to browse, nothing to sell — it's a two-person labor of love, and it works in English, Greek and Russian.

It's still growing (we're chasing 100% GPS coverage, and the north is thin). If a trail you know is missing or wrong, or you've got a GPX to share, I'd genuinely love to hear it — and tell me what you think.

https://monopatia.info