Start with Omodos, but don't stay
Omodos has the cobbled square, the monastery and the coach parties. Go early, walk it in forty minutes, and move on before eleven. It is genuinely beautiful and it is genuinely busy.
Lofou is the one people remember
Restored stone, built like an amphitheatre into the hillside, and a tavern at the top that does a proper meze. Twenty-seven kilometres from the city and it feels like a different country.
Vasa, Koilani, Arsos
Vasa Koilaniou for the restored lanes and the small wineries. Koilani for the vine museum. Arsos for the folk museum and for being the heart of the Krasochoria without trying to be.
All three are within twenty minutes of each other. You can do two comfortably, three if you skip a long lunch.
The practical bit
The roads are narrow, the signage thins out and the village addresses are frequently just a house name. Which is the honest argument for a driver: not laziness, but the fact that a wine tasting and a rental car are a bad pair.
A half-day with waiting time from Limassol is €60 to Omodos one way, or we build a route across three or four villages and quote it before you go.