Many of the local tourism operators, tuk-tuk drivers and restaurant staff say that 2012 has been the busiest year yet.
Sadid, a middle-aged local tuk-tuk driver, took me to a collection of flat rocks covered in white stains near Crocodile Rock.
Our hotels have a fleet of cars, including Rolls-Royces, BMWs, MINI Coopers and even a Peninsula tuk-tuk at The Peninsula Bangkok.
For the crowd-averse, or those wanting smaller waves, there are other options within, at most, a 30-minute half-hour tuk-tuk ride of Arugam Bay.
To get up close to the wildlife, visitors can opt for a conventional safari -- or ask a tuk-tuk driver to lead the way.
Situated on the Chao Phraya River, the city vibrates with endless traffic jams, as tuk tuks, cars and buses fill the roads daily.
Once the main form of public transport in Phnom Penh, the cyclo is getting gradually pushed out by cars, motorbikes and tuk-tuks.
All 60, 000 auto-rickshaws in Delhi (analogous to the 3-wheeled tuk-tuks seen in Thailand), for example, are being equipped with a GPS-enabled system.
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Pakistan led the list in 2010 with 2.7 million natural gas vehicles, though many are tiny tuk-tuks, out of a total of 13 million natural gas vehicles worldwide.
Sinewy men, cigarettes dangling from their mouths, unload boxes of supplies into the waiting trucks, while locals greet their families and clamber into one of the spluttering tuk-tuks lined up alongside the quay.
Indeed, the few times a second team member does sit up front it's to help the driver navigate big-city traffic, mostly as a second set of eyes out for cyclists, rickshaws and tuk-tuks.
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