The Akamas peninsula, so named after an Athenian nobleman, son of Theseus, who arrived here after the Trojan War, is a place of unusual natural beauty, famed for the ecodiversity of its habitat and the variety of geological formations found here – from narrow gorges to deep mysterious caves, from precipitous cliffs to islets swathed in sea mist. According to legend, after swimming in the crystalline waters of the bay, goddess Aphrodite would scale the hillside and bathe in a pool fed by a mountain spring that cascades down the sides of a grotto overhung by a leafy fig tree. This spot has come to be called the Baths of Aphrodite, and here Adonis, hunting in the Akamas forest, first saw and fell in love with the goddess.