Paphos, Coral Bay, Polis and Latchi
Lost an engagement ring in Paphos?
Coral Bay and Laourou, the Kato Paphos beaches off Poseidonos Avenue, Faros and Geroskipou, Polis Chrysochous, the Latchi marina, the Blue Lagoon and the Akamas coves.
A ring lost on the sand at Coral Bay and a ring lost among the rocks on the Peyia coast are two different jobs. What decides either is how closely you can place the ground it went into.
Ring Seekers is a lost ring and jewellery recovery service that works with experienced local metal detectorists to search for a ring, wedding band, watch or phone lost in Paphos, Coral Bay, Polis and Latchi. That takes in the Kato Paphos seafront and Geroskipou, the villages of Chloraka, Kissonerga and Tala, Coral Bay and Peyia, and Polis Chrysochous and Latchi in the northwest of Cyprus.
Tell us what happened and where. We choose an experienced detectorist who knows the coast, brief them with your map and photos, and tell you honestly if the odds are poor.
What to do before you leave the beach
Stand where you were and pick out something that will still be there next week. On the Kato Paphos beaches that is the kiosk behind you and Poseidonos Avenue. At Coral Bay it is the limestone headland at either end, and at Latchi it is the harbour. Photograph the sea, photograph the land, mark the spot on your phone map, and note roughly what time it was.
Send that over with a picture of the ring or the item itself. There is no cut off: what counts is not how long ago it happened but whether anybody wrote the spot down at the time.
Places we cover in Paphos, Coral Bay, Polis and Latchi
- Kato Paphos and the Poseidonos Avenue seafront
- Paphos harbour
- The Municipal Baths, Alykes, Pachyammos and Vrysoudia beaches
- Faros beach and the Paphos lighthouse
- Geroskipou municipal beach
- Pano Paphos, the old town and the market
- Chloraka, Kissonerga, Tala, Konia and Mesogi
- Coral Bay
- Laourou beach, also called Corallia, and Kafizis
- Peyia village and the hillside above the coast
- The Peyia sea caves
- Agios Georgios, also called Fisherman's Bay
- Polis Chrysochous and its municipal beach
- The camping site beach at Dasoudi and the coastal walkway
- Latchi, its marina and the municipal beach
- Neo Chorio and the Souli, Chalavro and Ksistarokampos beaches
- Asprokremmos beach
- The Aphrodite and Adonis nature trails
- The Blue Lagoon at Fontana Amorosa
- The Akamas coves
- Pomos
From the Kato Paphos seafront to the Akamas coves
Six parts of the Pafos district, and what there is on each of them to line yourself up against.
The Kato Paphos beaches and the harbour end
The town beaches sit in the Kato Paphos tourist area. The Municipal Baths is 100 metres long, off Poseidonos Avenue, wooden decking with sandy sections, and the water there is calm and runs deep. Alykes, in the same tourist area, is a 200 metre coast of deep golden sand with calm clean water. Pachyammos and Vrysoudia are the other names people give us, and the harbour, the castle and the promenade stand behind that end.
Faros and the Geroskipou seafront
Faros is at the western end of Paphos and stretches 400 metres, golden sand and clear sea, with the white lighthouse that gave it its name standing over it. Geroskipou municipal beach, in the Geroskipou area, is another 400 metres, with calm shallow water, and a great deal happens on it: water sports, sporting tournaments and concerts.
Coral Bay and Laourou
Coral Bay is in Pegeia, north of Paphos: 500 metres of deep golden sand enclosed by a pair of limestone headlands, with calm shallow water and abundant greenery behind it. Laourou, also called Corallia, is the other name people use around here, and the two get mixed up in the telling, so say which one you mean.
The Peyia sea caves and Agios Georgios
Not every part of this coast is open sand. Around the Peyia sea caves, and at Agios Georgios which people also call Fisherman's Bay, there is rock as well, and that changes what is useful to tell us: the track you parked on, the ledge you stood on, and whether it went onto stone or into water. If a ring went down between rocks rather than onto sand, that is a long shot, and you would hear that from us first.
Polis Chrysochous and the coastal walkway
Polis Chrysochous lies 35 kilometres northwest of Paphos. Its camping site beach at Dasoudi is a mixture of sand and pebbles, set amidst greenery, with calm shallow water and a nature trail. The campsite and the beach are also where a coastal walkway begins that runs to Latchi harbour, so the beach at Polis can mean more than one piece of ground. Tell us what you walked past on the way down to the water.
Latchi, the Blue Lagoon and the Akamas coast
Latchi harbour stands at the far end of that walkway. Past it, towards the tip of the Akamas, the Aphrodite and Adonis nature trails begin. Further on, towards the Akamas lighthouse, the Blue Lagoon at Fontana Amorosa is a swimming spot of clear blue water. The Akamas coastline is dominated by calcitic sandstones, and that geology has produced small and large bays, sandy beaches, dunes, cliffs, sea caves and islets. If an earring or a bracelet went over the side on a trip up that way, the boat operator is the first person to ask.
What you can expect from us
The person who answers stays with it
Your first message is not handed round. The same person takes the details, asks the follow up questions and sees it through.
Your own words go forward
The pin you drop and the pictures you take are passed on as you sent them, not boiled down into a summary written by somebody else.
We tell you where you stand
Some cases are strong and some are weak. You will be told which one yours looks like before you decide anything.
Coral Bay is not Kato Paphos
Five hundred metres of open sand between two headlands, and a hundred metres of decking off Poseidonos Avenue, are different jobs. Naming the right one is most of the work.
The cost is settled first
Nothing gets booked until you have been told what it comes to.
The ground between Paphos town and the Akamas
Sand, decking, pebbles and rock, and which of them you were standing on.
Golden sand, decking and pebbles
Deep golden sand runs through much of this coast, at Coral Bay and Alykes, and Faros is golden sand too. The Municipal Baths mixes decking with sandy sections, and the camping site beach at Dasoudi is sand mixed with pebbles.
The water is not the same everywhere
Off the Municipal Baths it is calm and runs deep. At Coral Bay and Geroskipou it is calm and shallow. At Faros the sea is clear. Say which of those it felt like where you stood.
Depth, not the time of day
Cyprus has next to no tide, so the hour you went in tells nobody very much. What does help is how deep you were: ankles, waist, chest, or off your feet altogether.
Sun beds, umbrellas and water sports
Sun beds, umbrellas and water sports are standard along these beaches. If a search means working around any of that, we sort it out first with the people running it.
Want a first idea of your chances? Try the lost ring recovery calculator.
Questions about Paphos, Coral Bay, Polis and Latchi
My engagement ring came off on the sand at Coral Bay. Where do we start?
With the headlands. Coral Bay is 500 metres of deep golden sand between a pair of limestone headlands, so you can say which end you were nearer and how far down the sand your towel was. Add the beach bar you were beside, drop a pin, and send it with a photograph of the ring.
A ring went into the rocks near the Peyia sea caves. Is there any point asking?
Ask anyway. There is rock along this part of the coast as well as sand, so everything turns on how tightly you can describe the spot: the track you parked on, the ledge you stood on, and whether it ended up on stone or in water.
My wedding band slipped off in the water off the Municipal Baths in Kato Paphos. Is that findable?
Often it is. The Municipal Baths runs 100 metres off Poseidonos Avenue and mixes wooden decking with sandy sections, so say whether you went in from the decking or the sand. The water there is calm and runs deep, so tell us how far out you were and whether you could still stand.
I lost a watch or a phone at Geroskipou municipal beach. What now?
Try the lost property route first, since a watch or a phone on a busy beach is often handed in. Geroskipou is 400 metres of beach with water sports, sporting tournaments and concerts on it, so narrow it down for us: what was nearest you, and roughly when it happened.
We were on one of the Polis beaches and a ring is missing. Does it matter which one?
It does. A description that sounds obvious to you can fit more than one piece of shore here, because the camping site beach at Dasoudi is also where the coastal walkway to Latchi begins. Dasoudi itself is sand mixed with pebbles, set amidst greenery, with a nature trail running through it.
An earring or a bracelet went missing at Latchi, or on a boat trip up the coast. Can anything be done?
On the shore at Latchi, yes, provided you can point at where you were sitting. A boat trip is a different matter. The Akamas coast is bays, dunes, cliffs, sea caves and islets rather than one long beach, so begin with the operator, and get the name of the boat and the stop.
I have already left the beach and did not mark anything. Is it still worth messaging?
Yes. An unmarked spot is a harder start, not a dead end. If you are still on the island, walk back down and mark it now, even days on. If you have flown, dig out the holiday photographs from that day instead: a snapshot on the sand often places a towel better than memory does.
What do you do with the pin and the photographs I send?
They are the whole basis of the search. Everything you send is put in front of the detectorist who takes the job on, unaltered, and whatever they make of the ground comes back to you.
Paphos, Coral Bay, Polis and Latchi
Two photographs and a pin are enough to start
The beach, what was standing behind you, how deep you were, and a picture of what is missing.
That is enough for us to tell you honestly what we think, and to start asking who covers that part of the Pafos coast.