We arrived in Colombo last night, after a tiring journey. Our second flight in Doha was delayed by 2 hours so we spent 7 hours in the airport waiting for the connecting flight. When we arrived in the airport situated about 30 kilometres from Colombo, we took a bus going to the centre. The bus cost £3 for both of us and as we found out later it was too much, and the driver was driving 20 kilometres per hour hoping to pick up more passengers along the way. We arrived at the Colombo bus station at 1 am, after over an hour and a half of slow driving, and in the hotel at 2 am (we took a tuk-tuk from the bus station to the hotel that cost £1.50 night rate). Most of the tuk-tuks in Colombo have meters (initiative introduced by the government to prevent drivers from taking too much money) and foreigners should take only these tuk-tuks, the others without meters will try hard to rip the foreigners off. The meter starts at 50 rupees during the day for the first kilometre and 57 rupees at night.
Today we did a lot of visiting by foot and we also travelled by tuk-tuks. We visited the Fort and Pettah districts and the Gangaramaya temple.
In the pictures:
Colombo's World Trade Centre in the Fort district (second tallest building in Sri Lanka as well as the fourth tallest twin towers in South Asia), Arcade Independence Square in a district called Colombo 7 (super-complex of eateries and shopping outlets cushioned on a beautiful green expanse) and inside the Gangaramaya temple that is a mix of Sri Lankan, Thai, Indian, and Chinese architecture.
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