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~ The First Cultural Shock ~

Heat and humidity take hold of the newcomer as soon as the doors of the airplane are opened and at first you have a hard time imagining how you are supposed to endure that for the entire duration of your time there.

The airport was already considered quite modern and internationally designed in the 1980s.

After your first step out of the airport, you are once again stoked at the dimensions.

Hundreds of people are waiting in front of the building, curiously watching the newcomers, anticipating business connections or other contacts. Taxi drivers in particular are waiting right here for new customers. Even if they only have „tuk tuks“¹ to offer or sometimes donkey carriages to take tourists to their destinations.

As I mostly travel privately and not on a package deal, there was no tourist bus ready to pick me up. As an experienced traveller to Ceylon, I organised my own personal driver, who was waiting for me patiently.

¹ A car rickshaw is a motorised version of a Rikscha, which has its origins in Japan. These are small vehicles with two or three wheels that are either pulled by a person on foot or on a bicycle (cycle rickshaw) and are used for transporting goods or persons. Due to the noise that the two-stroke engine typically makes, there are sometimes called tuk tuk.

Internet quoting: URL. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorikscha.html.

Status: Oct. 17^th, 2020. Translated from German by Angelika Hinchcliffe. UK.