Pegeia

Pegeia

The town of Pegeia is located in the Paphos district of Cyprus, primarily on the steep slopes of the coastal hills inland from the Coral Bay, 14 km northwest of Paphos, at the southern end of the Akamas Peninsula. The town has a large British population and a rising number of holiday homes and apartments. The city is home to the Paphos Zoo, which was started by Mr. Christos Christoforou's love of birds and wildlife. Originally the zoo was to be home to Mr. Christoforou's huge collection of birds, but instead he decided to open the zoo to the general public, so that they could enjoy the magnificence of his collection, and make it a one-of-a-kind zoo in Cyprus. The zoo is home to a wide variety of birds and animals from all over the world. The parrot and venomous snake collection is one of the biggest in Europe. Birds make up the majority of the park's animals, with over 700 birds of more than 160 species, but the zoo's inhabitants include giraffes, monkeys, meerkats, crocodiles, kangaroos, Albino Wallabies, mouflons, White Lions and tigers. The Natural History Museum contains not only ancient fossils and stones from several thousand years ago, including the bone fossils of a dwarf hippo that was native to the island of Cyprus, but also information on some of the animals kept in the zoo and other native Cypriot animals.