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Guides

Practical answers to the questions people actually ask before renting: is it safe, what's legal, where to go, and where to start.

Things You Need to Know

Permits, laws, safety, and what every rental includes.

Who can drive here, on what licence, and how a visitor gets road-legal before the first checkpoint.

What actually happens when something goes wrong, and what NOHA does about it.

The permit, the speed limit, and where a tuk tuk legally can't go.

What to know before you pull out of Galle for the first time.

Licence, permit, deposit, and insurance — everything you need before you collect a scooter.

Where to base yourself, and how the stops on a trip link up.

Real distances between the towns most people actually stop in.

Where most rental companies are based, and why that changes your first day.