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A small but very cool natural grotto, just past the village of Tala. According to legend, this was the place where Adonis used to bathe before his meetings with Aphrodite. In days gone by, barren women used to come to bathe here by moonlight as they believed it would help them become pregnant, if they swam out to the rocks and touched them. It's changed a lot since the first time I visited here, and there more people than last time, but you can actually swim here, and apparently the mud from the floor is very good for your skin.
North Africa/Middle East
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