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We are going at the end of February, friends advise us to bring apples (!) And our cigarettes with us, because. this good can be exchanged for something useful from the locals :) How realistic is this?
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Everything useful from the locals can be bought for pennies, why fool around with apples??? You can take cigarettes to give to the guide or someone else as a sign of goodwill.
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answered 10 years ago
what to exchange with the locals is complete nonsense. you eat to rest, not to trade. They have apples - imported though. You need to take cigarettes for yourself if you smoke, well, it was rightly written - as a gift to someone. I saw cigarettes there for 5 dollars of one brand in stores.
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answered 10 years ago
Apples really don’t grow there and they are sold individually on the market, each in a net, I just can’t imagine with whom, where and what to change them for. We were in Hikkaduwa at two markets - fruit and Sunday, there are normal commodity-money relations, no exchange. Cigarettes, sweets as a gift - yes.
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answered 10 years ago
"to change" is a joke, it means that you can give it as a present and they will be very pleased :) because it is an expensive and valuable product
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answered 10 years ago
Apples are nonsense. But take cigarettes. They smoke very little, but for a couple of cigarettes they will be "friends" with you. And they also love our sweets very much ....
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answered 10 years ago
That's what they don't have - it's sausages)))))) I met with those who studied in Russia - they really missed our dry-cured and smoked sausages. I have never seen sausages in their stores.
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answered 10 years ago
From personal experience, I’ll say that we brought apples, sweets (caramels, chocolates, cigarettes and vodka) from Ukraine with us. We ate almost everything on the plane. If you are somewhere where there are a lot of children, they will come in handy. Apples are rare among them, they do not grow there (only the so-called wooden apples), but they are not at all like ours and are simply disgusting in taste. The local kids love them. For cigarettes. They are sooo expensive there for the locals and much easier than those in Russia and Ukraine. Therefore, any Sri Lankan will be incredibly happy if you treat them with a cigarette, and if you treat them with a pack, he will forever enroll you in the ranks of the very best! rupees and 5 cigarettes of clothes (true bargained for a long time). So cigarettes will definitely not be superfluous. You just need to know where and to whom to successfully present them) Chocolates, too, they gave 1 at the reception upon check-in (the workers were appeased), left as a tip in the room, treated the kids in Kandy, and fed the monkeys in Sigiriya with caramels. The most successful exchange went with us for vodka. 2 bottles were exchanged for 2 bottles of their rum (red and white). Both we and they were satisfied!
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answered 10 years ago
We personally brought apples, since there were plenty of them in the garden. We treated our beach beach boys, the maid, just as a sign of welcome. I don’t like coconuts, but I had to drink so as not to offend. On departure, they brought us black and pink rice, the same as a prize. A trifle, but nice.
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answered 10 years ago
In general, the exchange there is quite real, although it is more common in the South of the island! And yet, if 1 Sri Lankan refused, feel free to look for another) We were told by 1 tuker that he would change vodka for rum only if we give him 1 bottle just like that! But the other immediately agreed, although our vodka was cheaper than their rum! But they just love our vodka very much)
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answered 10 years ago
Definitely take vodka and cigarettes. Local cigarettes cost $6. And as a thank you, you can present them to the locals. Even if they do not smoke, they still take and remember you for the rest of your vacation.
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answered 10 years ago
You definitely won't change anything for apples. Consider the season - what are already normal apples? But cigarettes (calculate how many cigarettes you smoke at home), chocolate (don’t take expensive or any sweets, all this will be a pure prize), you can take a stick of raw smoked sausage (we were also told - it wasn’t superfluous), vodka (depending on how much you drink). Take cheap cigarettes for a prize. Have a nice rest!
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answered 10 years ago
apples are sold there on every corner and no more expensive than ours. But they asked me to buy cigarettes from me many times, but they only wanted Marlboro and LM. "shoot"
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answered 10 years ago
A bottle of red rum costs about $7-8. Is this an equivalent exchange for vodka? Looking at what. For all the time of the rest, we were only once asked about vodka (we did not take it). Tipping them 30-40 rupees (rate 1 USD-126 rupees). It is easier to put money as a tip. We did so. Have a good rest.
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answered 10 years ago
A bottle of red rum costs about $7-8. Is this an equivalent exchange for vodka? Looking at what. For all the time of the rest, we were only once asked about vodka (we did not take it). Tipping them 30-40 rupees (rate 1 USD-126 rupees). It is easier to put money as a tip. We did so. Have a good rest.
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answered 10 years ago