Colombo by i Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Capital Colombo, a port city, with a rich colonial heritage, on the Western coast is a potpourri of races, religions and cultures. Colombo displays the best and worst the country has to offer. The city is a contrast itself, with mansions, lush gardens, fine dining options, shopping malls packed with expensive designer brands standing next to urban slums; diesel fumed congested roads and street markets.

Despite its small size just 37.31 km² Colombo offers a varying selection of experience ranging from taking a tuk tuk ride, a visit to Pettah market and eating Kottu to playing a round of golf and having high tea at one of the colonial style hotels overlooking the Indian Ocean.With many boutiques filled with international brands and local art and fabrics Colombo is the best place to do the last minute shopping and then it’s best to retire to Galle face, Colombo's playground for some Kottu or Wade.

About Colombo City

Colombo City, the capital of Sri Lanka is an intense, vibrant and dynamic commercial city with a population of 3 million. Colombo, with its seaport and its international airport located 35km north of the heart of city, is Sri Lanka's prime hub of transportation: main motor roads and railway lines to all four corners of the island begin herein. Among the accommodation options in Colombo which, sports an array of international class hotels, boutique hotels, villas is Hilton Colombo.

Galadari Hotel, Ceylon Continental, Cinnamon Grand Colombo, Cinnamon Lakeside, Taj Samudra Colombo, Hotel Holiday Inn and Galle face Hotel are among the hotels of International standing in Colombo.The heart of the city called "Fort" (Colombo Portuguese fort doesn't exist today) is home to Colonial buildings which, house department stores and government offices together with modern high rise buildings which, house Trade Centers and Commercial Banks. Fort with its Central Bank, the Banker to the State; Bank of Ceylon run by the state-the banker to the nation; Peoples Bank operated by the state; multinational banks-Hongkong and Shanghai bank, Chartered Bank etc; local banks help drive the commerce of Sri Lanka.

Fort's Galle Face Green, the perfect seafront promenade, running parallel to the Indian Ocean to the west with its sea-spray of crashing waves and bordering Colombo-Galle main road immediately to the west takes you by surprise, coming from airport, while taking the fountain round- about at Hotel Galadari at the heart of the city.

In the last second you were passing  Hotel Galadari and Hilton Colombo. In another second you will be at Galle face Hotel to your right and Hotel Taj Samudra and Hotel Holiday Inn to the left. Colombo-Galle coastal road takes you 160 km to Matara, now hugging the coast and now parallel to the southern railway line. From Wadduwa (36km) to Matara (160km), you will be traveling along the fascinating south western and southern coastal belt replete with pristine palm fringed beaches well supported by international class hotels all along. Stay the night, tonight at Bentota Bay Beach (64km).

Why Colombo?

  • Colombo is the capital, the emporium, the main harbor and the principal transportation hub of Sri Lanka Holidays. So why not? Why not begin Sri Lanka Holidays at Colombo?
  • hen again to say so is to miss the main point. Staying in Colombo affords the opportunity to witness the modern murals at Kaleniya Royal Temple. The famous murals depict the major milestones of Sinhalese Buddhist civilization of Sri Lanka. The murals build up a brief pictorial narrative of the unbroken chronicled history of Sri Lanka since 543 BC. Kaleniya Buddhist Temple is a mini encyclopedic springboard to the exploration of the historical, cultural and archeological destinations of Sri Lanka Holidays.
  • Furthermore staying in Colombo is to grab the opportunity to enlighten you of Colombo vis-a-vis other main cities of Sri Lanka. Colombo has no rivals in Sri Lanka: it's a metropolitan city with Colonial Heritage; it is home to the finest city hotels of Sri Lanka; its accommodation options ranges from Hilton Colombo to Home stay.
  • Most of all, Colombo is the principal transportation hub of Sri Lanka.

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Om Colombo-distriktet

Colombo er Sri Lankas største by og handelshovedstad. Den ligger på øens vestkyst og støder op til Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, Sri Lankas hovedstad. Colombo er en travl og pulserende by med en blanding af moderne liv og koloniale bygninger og ruiner og en bybefolkning på 647.100. Colombo Metropolitan Region, defineret af distrikterne Colombo, Gampaha og Kalutara, har en anslået befolkning på 5.648.000 og dækker et areal på 3.694,20 km². Colombo er en multietnisk, multikulturel by. Det er den mest folkerige by i Sri Lanka med 642.163 mennesker, der bor inden for bygrænsen. Befolkningen i Colombo er en blanding af adskillige etniske grupper, primært singalesere, maurere og tamiler. Der er også små samfund af mennesker med kinesisk, portugisisk, hollandsk, malaysisk og indisk oprindelse, der bor i byen, samt adskillige europæiske udlændinge. Langt de fleste srilankanske virksomheder har deres hovedkontorer i Colombo. Nogle af industrierne omfatter kemikalier, tekstiler, glas, cement, lædervarer, møbler og smykker. I byens centrum ligger Sydasiens næsthøjeste bygning - World Trade Center.

Om Vestprovinsen

Vestprovinsen er den tættest befolkede provins i Sri Lanka. Den er hjemsted for den lovgivende hovedstad Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte samt Colombo, landets administrative og forretningsmæssige centrum. Vestprovinsen er opdelt i 3 hoveddistrikter kaldet Colombo (642 km²), Gampaha (1.386,6 km²) og Kalutara (1.606 km²). Som Sri Lankas økonomiske centrum er alle de store lokale og internationale virksomheder til stede i byen, ligesom alle de store designer- og detailhandlere, så vær klar til at forkæle dig selv med lidt shoppingterapi i den vestlige provins. Med den højeste befolkning i alle provinser er næsten alle de førende uddannelsesinstitutioner på øen placeret i den vestlige provins. Universiteterne i provinsen omfatter University of Colombo, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, University of Kelaniya, Open University, Sri Lanka, Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University og University of Moratuwa. Den vestlige provins har det største antal skoler i landet, herunder nationale, provinsielle, private og internationale skoler.

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