Colombo is the capital city of Sri Lanka and on your trip you will most likely arrive here and maybe spend a few days of sightseeing.

On my journey to and through Sri Lanka I have tried to see and experience as much as possibile but of course you tend to visit the places that others recommend or have visited before you.

Some of these places in and around Colombo...

I arrived in Colombo by train from Negombo which is located 40 km more to the north of Sri Lanka's west coast and I could notice the change in scenery straightaway.

Colombo is the capital city of Sri Lanka and the buzzling heart of the country with traffic jams on every corner but also a more modern feel to it.

It was the mixture between that metropolitan atmosphere and at the same time the old colonial buildings and archeological wonders that fascinated me.

You could visit beautiful buildings in the city like the Jami Ul Alfar Mosque, the Murugan Hindu...