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Article: Travel 2000: Sri Lanka - Kandy cameras; James Hardy is put in the picture about Sri Lanka - after he tears himself away from unspoilt beaches.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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IN exotic locations, gawping tourists like nothing better than snapping a few photos of the natives.
In Sri Lanka it works in reverse. Natives want pictures of the gawping tourists.
We were on the receiving end of the camera so many times we lost count during a stroll through the beautiful botanical gardens in the holy city of Kandy.
Smiling groups of Sri Lankans, decked out in their Sunday best, insisted on posing alongside us for family snaps.
Dozens of them must now possess pictures of my wife and me, wearing increasingly maniacal ...