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You don’t have to be mad to ascend a shaky, 65-m (210-ft) high tower, then leap from the top attached to a length of elastic cord – but it helps. Agia Napa, that magnet for youthful thrill-seekers, is Cyprus’s bungee capital. Also available are the “skycoaster” and the “slingshot” – which instead of sending you plummeting towards the ground, fire you into the air.

A mere 9.5 km (6 miles) there and back from central Agia Napa to Agia Thekla, on the flat all the way.

This tiny cove west of Agia Napa manages to avoid the worst of the summer crowds. There’s a small sandy beach guarded by a little white chapel.

A stiff clifftop walk, starting at the pretty church of Agii Anargyri above Konnos Beach with a detour to Cape Greco and its lighthouse.

A natural amphitheatre of white limestone cliffs conceals this rugged stretch of shoreline from the south coast highway. The pebbles make it better suited for a quick dip before lunch than a full day’s sunbathing.

Look out for flamingoes and pelicans as you make this 30-km (19-mile) circuit (on the flat) of the lagoon.

Endangered loggerhead and green turtles lay their eggs on this undeveloped crescent of sand and shingle. The Society for Protection of Turtles (SPOT) operates a small information centre and takes visitors on turtle-watching walks from May to October, during the nesting season, as well as doing its best to protect eggs and hatchlings.

This is a fascinating offshore cave dive – the clay wine-jar embedded in the roof of one of the caves seems to imply, according to archaeologists, that they were once above the waterline and have been drowned over the centuries by seismic movement. Beautiful coral abounds here. Maximum descent is 10 m (30 ft).