The Story Of Colombo and Places

      The main commercial and largest city in Sri Lanka is Colombo. If you are planing to travel in Sri Lanka as a traveler you have to know something about this City for your convenience. "COLOMBO" is an English word but in Sinhala it called "KOLAMBA". Late 1505 this place called as "KOLONTHOTA" in Sinhala and it was a Harbor located in Kalani River.  This place had so many huge mango trees but they were not bare fruits. Instead of that they had large amount of leafs. In Sinhala leafs called "KOLA", "AMBA" for mango and "THOTA" for harbor then a name generate "KOLA AMBA THOTA". Later, this Sinhala word converted as "KOLAMBA" even present Sri Lankans call it as "KOLAMBA". And also after the colonization of Britain they called it "COLOMBO" as honor of Columbus. 

          Colombo is a crowded city and its sleepless. Much more important political and economic spots are located in Greater Colombo Area what is divided into 15 numbered sub areas as follows.

1.  Colombo 01 - Fort
2.  Colombo 02 - Slave Island / Union Place
3.  Colombo 03 - Kollupitiya
4.  Colombo 04 - Bambalapitiya
5.  Colombo 05 - Havelock Town / Kirulapone
6.  Colombo 06 - Wellawatte / Pamankada
7.  Colombo 07 - Cinnamon Gardens 
8.  Colombo 08 - Borella
9.  Colombo 09 - Dematagoda
10.  Colombo 10 - Maradana / Panchikawaththa
11.  Colombo 11 - Pettah
12.  Colombo 12 - Hultsdorf
13.  Colombo 13 - Kotahena / Bloemendhal
14.  Colombo 14 - Grandpass
15.  Colombo 15 - Modara / Mattakkuliya  

     Colombo is the smallest district in Sri Lanka but contains the highest population. Over 2 M people stay in this city according to the census 2012. 

Places To Travel In Colombo


           In Colombo there are so many places to travel and see. Some of these places been charged (Few amount of LKR) to open their doors of that interesting places for visitors.  Even local visitors must pay some entries like National Museum, Colombo Dutch Museum, Ape Gama etc...But the experience you visiting there is higher than your pay.  So let's look at some interesting places where you can visit with joy.

           1.   Gangaramaya Buddhist Temple

             
                   
             
                   

                
           2.   National Museum Of Sri Lanka
                      

             
            
             
            


           3.   Viharamaha Devi Park
               
                  

             
                   
                   
                   


           4.   Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque

             
                     
                         
           5.   The Independence Square 

              
                     
                 
                 


           6.   Gall Face Green
            
                    
                    
                    

             
           7.   St. Lucia's Cathedral 

             
                   
                     
                     

           8.   Colombo Dutch Museum

              
                     
                     


           9.   Seema Malaka
                 
                 
                 
                 

           
           10. Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya

           
                                                               
                  
                  

           11. Diyatha Uyana

           
                 
           
           


           12. Ape Gama

    

     
       
     
     


           13. Pettah Floating Market

             
                   

            
            

        
               14. World Trade Center 

                 
                          

                   
                 
                   So, enjoy your Colombo walk when you travel to Sri Lanka. Thanks for reading and I'll come with another important article.