Colombo Sri Lanka is Fascinating! 🇱🇰 Top Things To See & Do in Colombo | 197 Countries, 3 Kids
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Join us as we take you on a tour around Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka.
Before COVID took the world by storm, we were in the Maldives, intending to make India our next stop.
However, to get an Indian visa, we needed two empty pages in our passport, which Chantal didn’t have. So, we decided to make a detour and go to Sri Lanka first, where we could have a new passport issued at the Swiss Embassy.
As soon as we landed in Colombo, we couldn’t believe they sold home appliances at the duty free shops in the airport. Imagine picking up a new washing machine before clearing customs :-)
It took us an hour, and a crazy ride, to get to our accommodation in downtown Colombo. The place we had booked seemed nice, but upon arrival, we realized it had absolutely nothing we could use to cook or prepare a meal.. So we had to arrange another Airbnb quickly and, this time, it turned out to be much better than we expected. It was clean, spacious, newly renovated, and most importantly, air-conditioned!
After settling in, we waited till sundown for the heat to give in a little before we went out and explored Colombo. On our way to the newest shopping mall, we felt tempted by the mouth-watering street food that smelled so amazing!
Our first stop the following day was the Swiss Embassy, where Chantal applied for a new passport.
A few eventful Uber drives later, we found ourselves hunting for a new backpack at the market. We couldn’t believe the low prices and amazing selection.
The train station was right beside the market, so we stopped in to take a look around. Then, we hopped in a Tuk-Tuk to Colombo’s lighthouse. The lighthouse now overlooks an area of reclaimed land that is being developed with Chinese investments into a modern business center.
Our next stop was at the Cargills building, a former Governor’s Palace, which has turned into a grocery store and fast food court. There was even a KFC inside. Imagine!
We also went to see the floating market. Unfortunately, it wasn't open, but we did get to see the Lotus Tower up close. From there we made one more stop for the day at the fascinating Gangaramaya Temple.
The next day we were so excited to show you some more of Colombo’s attraction, and then it happened again! Another shocking Uber ride. The driver slightly bumped into a bus and another car and went on a 30-minute detour!
After arriving back in the downtown area, we visited the Independence Square, La Galeria’s beautiful architecture, and Sri Lanka’s National Museum. Tickets were quite affordable at 5 USD for adults and 2.5 USD for kids.
Our very last stop for the day was the Shri Ponnambalawaneswaram Hindu temple. Its name is such a tongue twister that we challenge you to send us a video saying it fast ten times :-) Exploring this place of worship at night was such a unique and mystical experience.
Finally, back in our chilly Airbnb, we were able to unwind and relax. And Chloe had a few words of advice for all travelers and explorers. Here's a link to where we stayed: abnb.me/PRa9VpU2Y9
Stay tuned for more fun videos from our adventures around Sri Lanka and the globe!
0:00 Welcome to Sri Lanka
1:05 Sri Lanka Airport Duty Free
1:47 Finding Accommodations in Colombo
4:07 Colombo Sri Lanka at Night
4:22 One Galle Face Shopping Mall in Colombo
5:50 First Stop: Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka
6:18 A Tight Uber is Never a Good Idea for Us
6:40 Exploring Colombo During the Day
7:50 Sri Lanka is Very Affordable
8:43 Colombo Train Station
9:25 Julia Wants to Drive a Tuk Tuk
9:35 Colombo Lighthouse
9:45 The Chinese are Building Port City Colombo
11:25 Cargills Building
11:55 Floating Market & Lotus Tower
12:52 Gangaramaya Temple
14:24 Worst Uber Ever
15:37 Independence Square
16:20 La Galeria
17:04 Sri Lanka National Museum
16:38 National Theater Colombo
19:00 Shri Ponnambalawaneswaram Hindu Temple
20:17 Chloe’s Word of Wisdom
Enjoy the video!
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South Asia’s cleanest country
Thanks bro❤️
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நன்றிகள்!
Thanks Ian
Yeah indeed 😍
I traveled there in 2013
The people of Sri Lanka are hospitable and beautiful nature❤
Nice. I wonder how much it's changed. Even from when we were there I'm sure the development by the water has come a long way.
Come back again 🇮🇷🇱🇰❤️
Yes
Well, I don't know about hospitable. But, thanks to COVID we are certainly hospitalised.
Kubie
Sri Lanka looks great. It's hard to remember life before Covid now thanks for sharing 👍
I know it’s not going to be the same for a while yet.
But keep our faith everything will be alright asap
Srilanka and people’s are great while politicians are worst
@@militaryboy7038 really that bad politicians there? What happened?
@@KimAhrina11 they are looting the country
Sri Lanka, a natural beauty
Yes
Welcome to Sri Lanka. Appreciate your visit and please enjoy this country to the fullest and bring back a lot of smiles and memories.
Thanks so much! We have a few more Sri Lankan videos coming out soon 🙌
This country needs 💵 dollars,hope they will treat you well.
@@TheSoosai India😂😏??
@@TheSoosai for what?
These are the main religions in Sri Lanka,
1)Buddhism (70.2%)
2)Hinduism (12.2%)
3)Islam (9.7%)
4)Christianity (7.4%)
Thanks for sharing. 🙌
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders No problem
By visiting Sri Lanka you can experience the highest level of hospitality and delicious food and the beauty of the natural environment. ❤️🙂
Thanks for doing the video. Being a local, I haven’t been to many places you guys have explored. There are many places all around the country to be exploited, including serene beaches, heritage cites both from colonial and ancient Sri Lanka, wildlife and natural beauty. Hope you all will have a memorable time. Traffic is somewhat unique in this part of the world and can be literally a thrilling experience sometimes! :)
Oh yes and we did discover many of these places you’re mentioning. Can’t wait to share more of our Sri Lankan videos.
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders 😍
Beautiful sri lanka
Oh yes! Can’t wait to share the next videos! 🙌
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders whats your problem කුමක්ද ප්රශ්නය
those tuk tuks bakery is playing beethovan's famous 'Fur Elise' Sound Track... every tuk tuks bakery play same track.
That makes sense then you know it’s the bakery tuk tuk coming along.
Thanks for visiting my home country that I haven’t been to in 15 years. Greatly presented video. 👏
Oh wow! You must miss your home country. We loved the food in Sri Lanka! Many more Sri Lankan videos coming out soon!
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders where are you from??
I am Sri lankan.my country is a great kingdom❤️❤️🇱🇰🇱🇰
You live in a beautiful country!
Welcome to Srilanka....taste Srilankan food as much as......delicious ....enjoy ✌👍
Oh yes! You’ll see in our next video, we try SO many amazing Sri Lankan foods. 🤩
*Welcome to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 💖💐🙏 The best travel destination in the world and you can have lots of fun, adventures anywhere within few hours which can't get from nowhere !!!*
Awww... Beautiful kids and mom! Love to see their faces! Lots love from Srilanka ♥️
You all are so beautiful and talented youtubers. Thanks for visiting us.❤
God bless y'all !!🙏
Thanks for the kind encouraging words.
We stayed in Negombo for a couple days on the way to the Maldives and the only negative aspect was we didn’t stay longer! Can’t wait for an opportunity to go back! Great video!
Oh wow that's amazing!
The kid's presenting skills are very good 👍Welcome to SL!
Thank-you! I’ll let them know.
I'm from India and planning to visit so I was looking videos of srilanka and got freash one to know about exact condition of travelling in srilanka because of COVID
man can't believe its been a while since the world has changed cause of covid. still at least u guys got to make memories of your travels before the covid madness
I know right?! You’ll see as our travels from Jan - March just before we arrived to NZ how things started to rapidly change as Covid started to make way.
Thank you for making the videos so informative. Not many non-traveling people know about Sri Lanka. So thankful for you guys for making this amazing video series. It will shed some light and hopefully, we can rebuild our tourism industry.
Appreciate your visit and please enjoy this country to the fullest and bring back a lot of smiles and memories.
You Guys Doing a Tremendous Job, Keep up the good work. Love to see more blogs in Sri Lanka.
You guys are so sweet!! Loved this video about Srilanka. I am a Srilankan now living in Canada. I traveled across Colombo vicariously through you🙂 💗 Hope you have an amazing time in Srilanka!!
That's awesome! We're originally from Canada. You must find it SO cold compared to Sri Lanka.
Another great travel vlog and you sure did push yourselves in those first few days in Columbo. You saw a lot!
Thanks! We sure did cover a lot of ground in a few short days.
Welcome to my country 🇱🇰👍
Thank-you!!
This looks so cool, Im planning to go to Colombo by July
i went to sri lanka was amazing
Thank you for creating a video about Sri Lanka❤️🇱🇰
Beautiful vlog warmly welcome sri Lanka enjoy 🤩❤
It's 2nd place of most beautiful island of the world according to the national geography 🇱🇰👍❤️❤️
Oh wow I didn’t know that..🤩
Thanks for coming Sri Lanka and spreading LOVE.
Aww thanks! You guys are all so very welcoming. 💕
just a tip use sri lankan soundtrack for background music. That would be nice.. 👌👌
Welcome to sri Lanka And Thank you for making a video much love and stay safe 🇱🇰❤️🤗
Beautiful , nature Sri lanka. I LOVE SRI LANKA
Thanks for visiting!💖
Welcome and thanks for visitin🇱🇰💙
I'm old enough to remember when the country was universally known as Ceylon!
Also - I will grant that I haven’t been following your every episode, but I always assumed your family was originally from the U.S. How do you happen to have a Swiss passport?
Great video. Got ideas to travel with the family to Sri Lanka as well
As a Sri Lankan, I appreciate your efforts....
Beautiful Ceylon 🇱🇰
Love from Sri Lanka !
Thanks for coming Sri Lanka 🇱🇰!!
Thank you ever so much for travelling to Srilanka 💐 It's amazing, no doubt about that. But to hear that from you guys,,, it's beyond the word of amazing. We love to hear from visitors our country's best parts and the particular parts that we need to pay attention. I appreciated You have done that.
Enjoy your rest of the travel around the world💐💐
Thank you very much for the amazing video, and also visiting Sri Lanka at this time. Hope there will be more visits after saw your video.
You guys are so adorable...I wish you many more happy trips 🥰🥰🥰
come again to sri lanka again,
There is unspeakably beautiful in Sri Lanka.
(I am from sri lanka)
❤😻😻😻😻
Yes! We will!
Beautiful cool vlog ❤
Short but sweet
Wow 👌👌👌Thanks for coming❤❤❤❤
It's nice to see Colombo and it was indeed a moment of nostalgia. Waiting to go back to my beautiful country - watching from New Zealand
Oh wow! I bet you must miss it so much.
We wish you safe and epic journeys and adventures in future!! All the best guys .
This is a wonderful way to learn about life , other cultures and humanity 🙏🙏
Thank you come again .. and again. Most wellcome to my country ...
Nice Video !! Welcome to Sri Lanka is a Nature Paradise you need to explore more here. Safe journey & Enjoy !!!
Wow,
Thank you guys for promoting tourism in Sri Lanka through your channel ❤️🤝🇱🇰
Absolutely beautiful vlog.
Thanks for vist Sri Lanka .next time come again🙏🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
Enjoy life ... be happy ... be safe ...
Im srilankan from Dubai
Awesome! If you follow along you’ll soon see more from our time in Sri Lanka. Hope Dubai is treating you well.
Can’t wait. 🥰
🙌🤩
Amazing video guys 😍
It's really nice to see you guys here... It's a honour for us you coming here. Hope u enjoyed well.
Appreciate your visit and please enjoy this country.Love from kandy-Srilanka
Thanks ... visiting enjoying in my country 🙏🙏🙏 There are many more places. You can enjoy any climate you like. In my country. Who never saw us. There are other beautiful places. Carefully and happily a. To experience everywhere. I wish you all the best 🇱🇰🇿🇦
Thank u very much dear ladies for this lovely video. Hope you will visit us once again very soon........ We are very much grateful as Srilankans for promoting our country as a great tourist destination to the whole world..........proud to be Srilankan.........
PROUD TO BE SRI LANKAN. THAT'S FOR SURE.
😊I am a sri lankan monk.☸️ I am very happy to be in sri lanka.🇱🇰 there are many more eco-friendly and beautiful places in colombo.👌🏻 if you are still in sri lanka,🇱🇰 I invite you to vist those places as well.👍🏻 l saw in the video that you have even visited buddhist places.☸️ Very happy about that.😊 The vehicles you choose to travel with do not seem to have enough space and comfort.👎That was evident from the little sister's🤗 face.😀 I think those guy must have had fun.❤️ mother & daughter🌹are a beautiful family. 😍 we invite you to return to your country as soon as possible. 👊🏻 I wish you all the best in your feature endeavors. 🙏🏻 be careful. 😷 👊🏻congratulations.🤝🏻 jesus bless you.✝️
Great video! Waiting for more videos of sl ❤️ don't forget to wear a mask guys.stay safe!
Welcome to sri lanka 🇱🇰 | We are very happy that you made a video like this about our country ❤️
Thanks for the warm welcome.
Welcome to Sri Lanka!! Enjoy❤️❤️
So Very nice and interesting to much....each moment was amazing looked upon with much anticipation.....
Amazing 🤩 guys. Love you all.
Thanks for visting our beautiful country 😁😁
Welcome to Sri lanka and please enjoy your visit here. Thank you very much for the video.
Wow ! Look at these beautiful ladies , traveling the world making this informative and entertaining video in Sir Lanka , now how cool is that .
Welcome and thanks for visiting 🇱🇰
Thank you!🤗
Welcome to Sri Lanka.... My Great Motherland. Enjoy...
Wow beautiful thanks...welcome to srilankan 😃🙏🤝🇱🇰♥️⚘...
Thank you 🇱🇰🇱🇰
Super beautiful video, enjoy your stay in Sri Lanka
I love my green country welcome
Thank-you!
Excellent post thanks. Need to venture out of Colombo to see the real Sri lanka to be honest, so many places with ancient ruins of palaces etc spread across the country of ancient forgotten kingdoms. Worth the trip as you would be surprised by the technology and architecture that was there hundreds of years ago, would need a bit of time for it. Have subscribed, look forward to more of your travels :)
Beautiful video 😍😍
it's remarkable decomentory , Thanks for visit SL 👍
Proud to be Srilankan❤😇🤗
Thanks for visit sri Lanka !!!!!
Thank u guys❤️
Thank you so much for your visit to my motherland , Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 and for your patience for not having proper informations about the places which are not fully operated . I feel we should have had more Informations on brochures about famous attractions and places to dine for the visitors like you for their convenience . There are beautiful sceneries in train trips to up country and coastal routes. Thanks again for making this video.
Wishing you all of your travel dreams come true .
Thanks for visiting our country ❤️
Thanks so much!
wow beautiful video about sri lanka happy to see my county beauty thank you sharing to world .
Thanks for visiting our country Srilanka. Our village is northern part of srilanka.
Thank you 💟🇱🇰
hey guys had fun srilankans here
welcome to Sri lanka guys...
Welcome to 🇱🇰
Thank you visting for 🇱🇰
Hey beautiful family
Thank you very much for visit sri lanka and make a beautiful videos and tell to whole wold sri lanka is reall paradise.
Hope you come back to sri lanka.
❤ from 🇱🇰
Welcome back to srilanka 🇱🇰
Thanks for visiting us ❤️❤️
We really enjoyed it!!🤗🤩
Welcome 🙏 to Sri Lanka sweet ladies, hope you all had great time in Colombo. Cheers 🍻 guys
Thanks!
Welcome to Paradise. I think You happy came to Sri lanka. Enjoy it. that is my country. my mother country I'm So Proud to grow up tourism in this pandemic situation. 😍🥰
I like your videos! You guys better to visit county side of Srilanaka not just only unclean Colombo! I recommend kandy city and nuwara eliya ,galle, hikkadwa, mirissa, sigiriya areas! Enjoy guys!