After about ten minutes we stopped outside the temple, and the driver said: -Twelve hundred rupees, please. -What?! We were flabbergasted. Then V quickly snapped: -This journey could not cost more than one hundred! -Twelve hundred, said the driver. -No way! We’ll give you 150 and that’s it!
Things were heating up. We couldn’t negotiate a reasonable price, so we said: -Ok, we’ll call the police. But to end the dispute we gave him 400 rupees and he drove away quick as a weasel. We were still enraged entering the temple where we realized we were doubly fooled. The Gangaramaya temple is always open, a quite popular tourist attraction because of all the odd stuff they have gathered.