The British Cemetery

Dating back to the time of the British protectorate, this extraordinary cemetery feels more like a forgotten garden than a graveyard. Beautiful, sweet-scented flowers, including 32 rare species of orchid, bloom in the warmer months and luscious grasses, plants, and trees crowd around the gravestones, with wild tortoises roaming freely, lumbering out of the shaded overgrowth to soak up the sun