Inland from the popular holiday resorts of Agia Napa and Paralimni / Protaras, with their golden sandy beaches and turquoise seas, are a number of picturesque villages in an area known as the "Kokkinochoria", meaning Red Soil villages, thanks to the red earth in which the potatoes that the area is famous for are grown. Watch the local people working in the fields cultivating potatoes or kolocase, Cyprus’ famous root vegetable.