/ Colombo Food + City Tour Full Day
Understanding a city is richly textured, complex and challenging. At a first glance, immediate visual appearance of a city is like the tip of the ice berg. There is must & best huge something down there which cannot be seen. In order to understand a certain urban society and its particular culture, it is so important to understand its setting, city centric cultural elements, norms & values, relationships between people & places and how they have changed through generations. Furthermore, their social life. How people’s life is shaped by the built environment. In this sense popular travel books might not be helpful to find out how the invisible affect the visible.
We designed our hidden Colombo tour by creating a very special guide for anyone curious to find out a little bit more about Colombo. We would like to share innovative methods & social mapping tools for understanding Colombo’s core identity.
No one leaves Colombo saying “I missed Galleface Green or I never saw the Pettah market”, but the things you do miss are the ones what makes Colombo so truly unforgettable. Considering buzzy architecture and the hustle & bustle of the nation’s capital, it’s quite understandable that you don’t immediately notice, another world awaits you right in the heart of the city. Therefore, a full day trip to Colombo including a visit to the national museum would bring the warmth of Sri Lankanness.
Key Details
Colombo
9.00 am
Air-Con Car/Mini Coach
Full Day
Ape Gama
Solo/Couple/Family/Students
Tour Highlights
Min 2, Max 20 – Children U/8 Free
Accommodation/ Dinner at a Sea food Res.
Per Person 30$ -Entrance,Transport,Food,Tips
Sight-Seeing, Event & ritual attendance, Shopping, Food Tasting,
What Included
your stay
Trip Itinerary
9.30 AMYou start the tour from Kotte Nagga Viharaya temple. This scared monument centralizes all major features, such as religious views, political stability, architecture, and life, of Kingdom of Kotte.
Next you visit the Parliament of Sri Lanka, a work of renowned architect Jeffry Bawa, where you can have an architectural perspective of the political shifts of Sri Lanka from the Colonial and Monarch eras.
The National Museum, founded in 1877, is your next venue. This place holds evidence why Sri Lanka is renowned for its appealing history and archeology.
Wandering in the streets of Cinnamon Garden is what you do next. This part of Colombo, which is dense with lush greenery, used to be the residential area of upper-middle class dwellers since the Colonial periods. An array of galleries, parks, and public spaces signify what believed to be the future of Sri Lanka.
The beach, Galleface Green, is the place where common city dwellers gather to take a break from the exhaustion of daily life. Enjoying street food by the sunset is an activity that most of the visitor, including yourself, can do. In addition, this area is surrounded by pieces of mammoth Dutch and English Colonial architectures.
To add a touch of multi-ethnic values and art to your tour, next we head towards Sri Kailawasanthan Swami Hindu temple. At this venue you can enjoy magnificent roof paintings and carvings while inhaling the air is filled with fragrances enhanced by traditional wedding music.
5.00 PMKelaniya Rajamaha Viharaya temple is your last, but certainly not the least, attraction of the tour. With a history that goes beyond 500 BCE, this temple probably the most sacred and religiously important Buddhist shrine in Colombo. Buddhists believe that Load Buddha hallowed the temple during his visit to Sri Lanka.
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