During the day, local hotels and restaurants sell seats and parasols along this beach. But they've packed up for home, leaving just a long stretch of beach, dotted with a neat even line of palm trees just before the sand slopes down towards the water.

It looks a little rough, at first: there are rocks all along the waterline. But cross the one foot's worth of pebbles and stones and you'll suddenly find nothing but sand and shallow water for a long stretch. In fact, you'd have to walk almost a hundred feet to find water that came any higher than your hips.