Colombo

Colombo

The city that survived everything and is still deciding what it wants to be.

Colombo is layered, contradictory, and increasingly vital --- a city that carries Portuguese, Dutch, British, Moorish, Tamil, and Sinhalese histories in its street grid, its architecture, its food, and its people without resolving them into anything coherent.

Experiences at this stop

• Pettah market --- the real city

Each street sells one category of goods. The commerce of a city of 800,000 people moves through it daily. Walk it with a guide. Do not try to navigate it alone.

• Galle Face Green at dusk

Kite sellers, food carts, families, lovers. The sun sets directly over the ocean here. It is the correct way to end a journey through Sri Lanka.

• Colombo food tour --- the last meal

Colombo's restaurant scene has developed significantly in the last decade. Your guide will know where the city is eating right now, not where it was eating last year.