Next, you will see the Royal Enclosure, a loop of road with several sets of ruins, and beyond that, the Queen's bath, a faded building with sumptuously curved arches inside, surrounding a now empty bathing pool.

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Some guests say they saw ghosts in the pool areas wearing 1930s bathing suits.

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The seawater pool was built on the site of a natural rock pool that people have used for bathing since the late 19th Century.

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The most famous spring is Cleopatra's Bath, which has crystal-clear natural spring water that gurgles up into a large stone pool, and is a popular bathing spot for locals.

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About 80ft high, I'd guess, it is beautiful rather than vast - a rushing stream that catches the light from an opening in the forest canopy and plunges into a pool where there were two people bathing, and from which, surprisingly, they produced a large basket of freshwater crabs.

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