2000 years ago a king sent his men to locate "Heaven on Earth". They found this glorious stretch of coast, deep blue sea under spectacular cliffs, backed by the Taurus Mountains.
Up a twisty, mountain road in SW Turkey, over a high pine-scented plain full of beehives, down an even twistier way, past a donkey with an old man in grey jacket bouncing jauntily along -- the perfect Turkish holiday retreat.
South of the bustling holiday resort of Marmaris is a stretch of unspoilt coastline which has hardly changed since the Greeks and Persians routed the Spartans off Knidos in 394 BC.