ARRIVAL IN SRI LANKA: COLOMBO TO PERADENIYA Between changes in time zones, the date-line, and the disorienting long flights during which you sleep and eat at bizarre intervals, we were all suitably confused when we arrived in Colombo. By local time, it was very late at night, just past midnight. We all staggered around the airport, showing our Passports, waiting out lines, and changing U.S. dollars into rupees. Eventually we were through the maze and looking for our local transport. Several young Sri Lankans took us in hand, grabbed our American-sized suitcases, and shepherded us onto the bus which was to become our portable "home away from home" for the next three weeks. After more than 24 hours in transit, we still had another two hours or so to ride from Colombo to Peradeniya. Of course
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