Dipkarpaz village & wild donkeys

The last real village before the empty tip of the Karpas, and one of the few places on the island where Greek and Turkish Cypriots still live side by side — a working farming town of stone houses, churches and a mosque within earshot of one another. It's the gateway to the wild north-east: golden beaches, the Apostolos Andreas monastery, and the famous free-roaming donkeys that graze the scrub and amble straight across the roads, which locals call a blessing and a nuisance in the same breath. There's little to 'do' here in the tourist sense, and that's precisely the appeal — Cyprus with the volume turned right down.