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Crazy about kandils

Okay, this is one gift you simply have to buy off the streets! A riot of colours and shapes light up all corners of the country as hawkers loudly proclaim the superiority of their kandils, even though they actually all have the same lamps to sell.

And haggling over the escalating costs of these paper giants each year is practically tradition! Our vote goes to the lovely traditional lanterns, with the never-ending paper tassels.

Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

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