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On my first morning in Sri Lanka, I am driven straight from the airport to a nondescript garage in Negombo, where a row of tuk-tuks gleam beneath the tropical sun. Their brightly painted bodies — some red, some blue, some green — are lined up like oversized toys waiting to be claimed. Around me, other travellers mill about posing for photographs beside their vehicles, signing paperwork and complet