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Galle Practical information

Health & safety

Dangers & annoyances

Galle has legions of bamboozlers, fixers, flimflammers and other characters looking to pull a scam. Be prepared to fend off all sorts of fabricated stories, such as the Fort is closed, or there are no buses to Unawatuna, or predictably, tsunami tragedies. The usual aim is to set you up for the centuries-old gem scam, where you pay absurdly high prices for gemstones, or buy a fake, or are asked to buy gems and resell them for a profit in other countries.

Numerous touts hang around the train and bus stations. But you’ll also find them in the Fort and along the walls. A firm ‘I have no interest in anything you have to offer, ’ should do the trick – at least by the fourth repetition.

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