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Southern comforts in Tangalle, Sri Lanka It’s a minimum three-and-a-half-hour drive or a 40-­minute ride on a C-20 Amphibian Air Taxi from Colombo to the Tangalle area of south-­western Sri Lanka. I opt for the exotic-­sounding Cinnamon Air. What I don’t know until the moment of take-off is that there’s a trainee pilot in the hot seat, battling high winds and the controls as his instructor barks instructions and flips through a ring binder. After several nerve-jarring bumps in clouds, the flight settles, and we zip our way over green hills, fields, rivers and forests to our destination, Mawella Lagoon Airport.