Perhaps the most alluring aspect of trekking along the peaks and hills of the Bodrum peninsula is the chance to feast one's eyes on the superb panoramas of innumerable islands, capes, inlets, bays and coves that grace this Aegean coast like intricate lace. Viewed from afar the peaks have the appearance of barren rock, but a closer look often reveals that these rocks form man-made walls of terraced fields. Construction of the terraces began in remote antiquity and continued 'till recent times, and now, shrouded by vegetation, they hide their past from the human eye.