"It was not a romantic, but nonetheless charming area. The mountains were missing; and all the poorer were the deciduous forests to the side of our way, among which stood some evergreens. We passed though splendid fruit plantations, where southern fruits ripened in the open.
Rich yet harvested grain fields stretched to the right and left, and as we neared the village, we saw a large fishpond, in which the trees of a large garden were mirrored."

- Karl Friedrich May
Oriental Odyssey VII
In the Land of the Skipetars