Black Island Hot Springs

This guide to Black Island Hot Springs, off the coast near Bodrum, opens with soldiers watching Halicarnassus burn from this rock in 334 BCE, then turns to the legend that grew here afterward: a cave of warm, sulphur-scented water and orange mud tied to Cleopatra's name. You'll hear how the ritual of smearing the mud and drying it in the sun has passed between generations of travelers with barely a change. Duck into the low stone chamber and feel the water seep up from below rather than pour in.