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Article: Tourist Die-Hards Linger in Sri Lanka
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- January 4, 2005
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CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-04-2005
Dateline: HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka
Marijuana smoke wafted through the Blue Fox restaurant on a seaside strip of low-budget hotels and surf shops, a reminder that a few foreign tourists were still around after all the devastation wrought by the tsunami a week ago.
"There are those die-hards who never left Hikkaduwa," said Suraj Perera, manager of the Coral Gardens hotel in this southern town, the cradle of Sri Lankan beach tourism in the 1960s. "They're getting their fair share of the sun."
One of them was Evert Jan Van Hoek, a 35-year-old Dutchman with a stud in his tongue and a ring in his lip who, with the help of a few other ...