Limit wise, Sri Lankan ATMs allow between 25 000 to 200 000 LKR per transaction and up to 200 000 per day. Fees depend a lot on the bank - Commercial ...

I only withdrew money from machines inside well-lit areas. In Galle and Ella I found ATMs inside supermarkets like Food City, which felt much safer ev...

This happened in Ella at an HNB ATM outside a grocery store. I tried withdrawing 40 000 rupees and the machine just shut off mid-transaction. It ate m...

Just came back from a month in Sri Lanka. In cities like Colombo, Mirissa, and Bentota hostels were fine taking my Wise Mastercard or HDFC Visa even s...

In March I took buses from Colombo to Nuwara Eliya and absolutely no card payments. I even asked a conductor to try my Visa but he laughed. He said on...

In Hikkaduwa and Kandy I used several ATMs and almost all asked this. The first time I hit Accept because I didn’t know what it meant and ended up get...

American Express is not popular in Sri Lanka. I managed to use it once at a Hilton in Colombo but that was it. Restaurants, grocery stores, even pharm...

I withdrew 300 soles at the airport from a Scotiabank ATM and yes it charged me about 25 soles but I needed cash right away for a colectivo. I was gla...

Yeah Peru is kind of hit or miss with cards. My ANZ Visa was accepted at Scotiabank ATMs and in most decent hotels and restaurants in Lima. But in Cus...