Colombo

About Colombo

Colombo sits on the west coast of Sri Lanka and has developed from an old seafaring port into a huge urban sprawl bristling with an Asian atmosphere. Around the historic center of Fort are colonial facades of banks, buildings and tumbledown shops and streets teeming with people, trishaws, bicycles, busses–and the occasional cow. Towering above Fort to the east are gleaming skyscrapers reflecting modern Colombo, but wherever you go in the city, you stumble across history, culture, and friendly folk.