Placid Gündoğan Bay, deepest on the the Bodrum Peninsula, offers a sandy beach with good swimming right in the centre and stays relatively sedate at night. Most of its part- or full-time occupants in the villas climbing halfway up the hills on both sides are well-off retirees from İstanbul or Ankara who, despite their secularist proclivities, have not been able to get the local imam to turn down the volume at the mosque – about the only noise that could jolt you out of bed here.