Country Info
- Colombo
- Capital
- Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
- Currency
- 19,408,635
- Population
- LK
- Country Code
Colombo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Colombo, Sri Lanka
New Years Eve...Sri Lankan style!
This is a top pick! ... Cape Town, our Qatar Airlines (which had an amazing personal A/V system!) flight touched down yesterday in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Buddhism dramatically influenced the history of this teardrop-shaped island off the southern tip of India. ...
Land of the Elephants
This is a top pick! ... -over. The flight from Amman was OK but neither of us really slept, mostly because of the time difference. Arriving at Colombo airport was funny because of all the duty free shopping. Instead of just the usual items being available such as ...
Guns and Water Features…..we must be in Sri
This is a top pick! ... a wonderful 9 hours in Heathrow Airport because BMI decided that flights from Belfast to Heathrow shouldn't be as frequent as someone flying to Sri Lanka would like them to be. Therefore, to make the most of our time, we decided to become experts in the 5 ...
the big city calls
This is a top pick! ... Colombo is supposed to be a bustling city, full of life and excitement. The Priminister is a Buddhist and consequently the whole of Sri Lanka has been shut down. What accommodation is available is too expensive (i.e The Hilton!) for us so we end up in ...
Colombo's Unsolved Mystery
This is a top pick! ... vehicle as if they were spectators at Wimbledon honing their skills for the forthcoming Gawping World Championships series versus India (I fancy Sri Lanka for the title) and not forgetting each town's own version of Crufts where 'Mongrel' would sadly be ...
Guns and Water Features…..we must be in Sri
This is a top pick! ... a wonderful 9 hours in Heathrow Airport because BMI decided that flights from Belfast to Heathrow shouldn't be as frequent as someone flying to Sri Lanka would like them to be. Therefore, to make the most of our time, we decided to become experts in the 5 ...
Oh no not again
This is a top pick! We have to spend one more night here in Colombo as close to the airport (i would have been happy to sleep on the run way) as we can get because we dont fly till tomorrow morning. We have just enough rupees to pay for our room, eat very little and buy a ...
Co-limbo
This is a top pick! ... communication had again failed; matters were in our own hands. So we phoned a new friend who - lucky for us - had returned to Colombo from Batticaloa. He kindly invited us to stay with him at a friend's home, so we took a taxi from the airport to the ...
Sri Lanka...Again
This is a top pick! ... date four times, and having agreed that our boat project was at last in order, we finally made our second trip to Sri Lanka. We arrived to Colombo where we met up with Joel and Becca, an American couple who has been living and working in Colombo for the ...
6 days in Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! ... -key exploration of Colombo was just what I needed after having just returned from a whirlwind 3-day reconnoitre of central Sri Lanka, through the Cultural Triangle. Encompassing the ruins of the ancient capitals of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, the hill ...
Smothered in Kindness
This is a top pick! ... to tell me of the large earthquake that struck under the sea off Indonesia's Aceh Province, so the tremors I felt here in Sri Lanka were very real. Local cellphones are now ringing with tsunami warnings, but this is simply a precaution after the massive ...
Compare and Contrast
This is a top pick! ... here and abroad, resulting in living conditions far superior to those in Lesotho. Christians make up only six percent of Sri Lanka’s population, yet certain aspects of Christmas are celebrated by one and all - particularly in the urban areas. ...
Serendipity on the Tear of India
This is a top pick! ... ~ a Ph. D student studying Buddhist art. "Sri Lankan reputation is now bad [because of the clashes]." ~ tour operator. "The Sri Lanka government is becoming more like a dictatorship. They are to blame for the war. They pretend that they are being ...
Boats for Kirinda
This is a top pick! ... women and children to safety, and tying them to treetops using saris and excess clothing. While reports have emerged from Sri Lanka that many fishermen have been traumatized by the tsunami, the fishermen of Kirinda have expressed their desire to return ...
Capitulation in Colombo
This is a top pick! ... above that the game only lasted four days instead of the usual five. This is because England were absolutely and thoroughly annihilated by Sri Lanka, handing us our heaviest defeat since 1973. I have to admit that at the end of Day 3 I had enough Lion ...
Ancient cities, tea plantations and Ella...
This is a top pick! ... of tea! Abstract: Leaving holy cows, filth, smells & people behind, we left wonderful India for Sri Lanka, spending a few days in the capital Colombo before heading to Kandy in the foothills of the hill country and a whistlestop tour of SLs ...
we've made our minds up!
This is a top pick! ... ) on Veligandu Island in Rasdhoo Atoll. I am so excited, counting down the hours and cant wait to leave tomorrow. Our last memory of Sri Lanka is that of a dead body being dragged from the middle of Galle Raod. His face was all mashed in, blood was ...
It's the old communications problem again...!!
This is a top pick! ... of chicken pizza, hot dogs or bread rolls covered in sugar. Pretty standard I think you'll agree. Having been dropped outside Sri Lanka’s answer to Harrods by Heshan, we soon discovered that it does not open until 9.50am…..again as we are in ...
Post-Tsunami Panic
This is a top pick! ... As we left Tangalle, we felt as though we had hit another wall. It was frustrating to know the need for help was widespread in Sri Lanka, and we felt disappointed at a personal level not to have found a niche in Tangalle. We agreed when we came to Sri ...
Out Of India!
This is a top pick! ... is the home of the Temple of the Tooth, and apparently I have arrived on the first day of the most major festival in Sri Lanka--the Tooth festival. . I wonder what the tooth fairy would give for buddhas tooth. Probably at least 20 bucks. The tooth, from ...
A Blond Moment in Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! ... , painted c(aves and ended our day in Sigiria at his friend, Raja's, guest house hotel, Globetrotter (Sigiriya Road, Rotawewa, Inamaluwa, Sri Lanka Tel: 078-8754350 Mobile: 0777-801818, email: rajaguna8@sitnet.lk) . Raja and his lovely wife and ...
Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! Arrived in Sri Lanka on Friday morning. It is everything we expected and more. Have been here 1 and a half days and now flying to the Maldives tonight Sat23rd for a week this is no reflection on S L its just rude not to go when it is just an hours flight ...
Luc meets Buddha
This is a top pick! ... word of eternal mindfulness. In his karmic wake he left behind millions of devoted Buddhists. Buddhism is the main religion in Sri Lanka. Meditation retreats, peaceful monastaries and Buddhist rest houses dot the Island and having a few days to spare, I ...
Twenty three years later
This is a top pick! ... , since Jaffna was out-of-bounds (due to the ongoing war) during the entire four years we worked in Sri Lanka. But so far I have simply been in Colombo, hanging out with my Sri Lankan friends, Tania and Shireen. I have been fortunate enough to be invited ...
Sri lanka
This is a top pick! ... have another shower as you were minging abit!! After spending one night in Kosgoda we made our way further up the coast to Colombo (Sri Lank's capital) This time we got a seat on the train-very rare and the train was fairly modern by all accounts ...
The Kingdom of Ceylon
This is a top pick! Colombo, Sri Lanka - Ok, it's been a while, but internet and availability in Sri Lanka is not so easy to come by. (Photos are taking ages to upload, will add more soon) My last few hours in Bangkok were filled with some anxiety. I had some problems ...
It's like hitting a solid wall of humidity
This is a top pick! ... in a different timezone, it gets pretty painful. "Is it daytime", "Am or PM?", "Am I hungry?". Montreal, London, Jordan, Colombo, Sri Lanka and finally Sleep... Sleep... Sleep. Luckily I managed to make the best of my London stop over by escaping the ...
Just like India but cleaner and less crowded.
This is a top pick! ... city. This is because this area contains many things that LTTE would like to blow up! Oh yeah in case you didn't know Sri Lanka is in the middle of small civil war. Occasionally they have bombs go off here and there....here's a fun ...
Last stop: Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! Only an hour's flight from Kerala, and we arrive in Sri Lanka in the late afternoon. The short drive from the airport to the hotel proves that Sri Lanka is a world away from even Kerala, let alone India: its instantly evident that there are less ...
