The palm-fringed resort of Two Seasons on Tokeh Beach in Sierra Leone offers privacy, seclusion and plenty of accommodation for a retinue of staff and security.
The mountains behind are topped with lush tropical greenery, and to the west, there's only the Atlantic, next-stop South America.
Everything, in fact, that a fugitive drugs kingpin with a price on his head could ask for.
But Dutch cocaine baron Jos Leijdekkers, 35, has found a lot more to his taste in this deeply corrupt nation than the clutch of upmarket beach villas he now calls home.
Since the dramatic arrest of 'cartel leader' Daniel Kinahan in Dubai earlier this month – and his extradition to face charges in Ireland – the mantle of 'world's most wanted 'drug smuggler' has now passed to Leijdekker along with increased global interest in how he is hiding out.
