Colombo is a jumbled mix of modern business blocks, colonial buildings, temples, and tumble down flats and houses. The city’s urban pursuits of shopping, fine dining, and buzzing nightlife contrast with the rest of rural, slow-paced Sri Lanka. Travelers who make time on its beach vacation for a visit to the capital can keep busy touring Buddhist centers, pretty parks, and fascinating museums. It is a cosmopolitan city with many cultures that’s why it entices the tourists from all over the World.

For a long time, Colombo was just an uninteresting, unavoidable and sometimes dangerous, transit to the island’s more sought-after tourist destinations elsewhere. In recent years however, Colombo has refashioned itself as a popular tourist hotspot offering many cultural, historical and nightlife attractions.

Colombo is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka. It is the financial center of the island and a popular tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, the legislative capital of Sri Lanka.