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thin mosque along the way to Negombo (about 40km north of Colombo), a famous beach area. There are strong settlements of Muslims and Catholics along the A2 highway between Colombo and Negombo. There are also 8,000 Ceylon-Malays. They speak good Malay but with a thick Sinhalese accent. I met two of them in downtown Colombo, one of them a conman, unfortunately.