Welcome to the New Sri Lanka Series starting in Colombo🇱🇰🎉Over the next few weeks I will take you to some of the most amazing places in this Country. Check out the First Episode here: th-cam.com/video/PyAtQR5nFRs/w-d-xo.html . My Travel Medical Insurance by SafetyWing (Needed for many Countries): bit.ly/3BsdPyN . Check out my Level8 Travel Luggage with Worldwide shipping (Code"Dany15"): www.clkmg.com/LEVEL8/DanyDev . For the best music in my content I use Epidemic Sound, sign up for a 30-day free trial here: bit.ly/3xXgNKc . 00:00 Intro Sri Lanka 00:53 Crazy Modern Development 03:40 Almost Lost Wallet 04:30 Modern Mall 07:30 Galle Face 12:30 Heading to Port City 14:07 Port City 17:30 Colombo has a Beach? 20:00 Summary and Plans in SL
Exactly im utterly shocked just how much cleaner Sri Lanka is compared to India even though its literally off the coast of India. I was in India 2 years ago and my god..
I find Sri Lankan history a great achievement. From fighting off invaders from 900s to 1815 and literally spreading Theravada Buddhism to Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam etc@@shiningstone6771
What blows my mind is just how insanely clean and orderly this place is compared to India. I was in India 2 years ago and this is like a different universe. The roads are MUCH cleaner and marked. Very impressed I hope to visit SL for my next holiday after seeing this. Im genuinely impressed.
@@pra3sh746never did there only like 2 buildings that belongs to china and still government has most shares, people just saying it because we take loans from china but in reality every country takes loans.. usa has like 3t usd debt like Bangladesh has 180b usd n sl has only 30b... Sri Lanka takes loans mostly from china due to relations
@@pra3sh746 there’s the Hambanthota port and that isn’t owned by China it’s on a lease and I think what you’re mostly referring to with your comment is Port city in Colombo that’s a different economic zone of its own and it’s a PPP with FDI inflows from many countries,so there’s a difference between selling land,leasing and direct investments.Also,Port city is still in development.
@@Pixeelated Right on,we did default on our loans due to decades of economic mismanagement and projects that didn’t generate any export revenue so that is to be expected but I would say it’s a rough comment to say we sold land to China,our corruption is bad but this isn’t like Africa where China can simply buy mineral rights and what not.
Im from Bangalore India and I have Sri lankan friends. We so keep visiting each other. I love SL. The landsacapes, the estates, colombo, wildlife, there is so much to explore. More than anything else, the people are super nice. Good wishes to my lankan friends
00:28 as I guess this is a architecture of MR.CICIL BALMOND , a sri lankan architecture ,he is also designed the CCTV headquarters of beijing china , both are masterpieces
if you like visit colombo suburb as well. You will discover lot of unexplored things in those suburb areas as well. Actually the colombo main city is just a small part of the greater colombo. There are many more sorounding cities around the colombo main city like Sri jayawardenapura kotte[capital city of Sri lanka],Talawatugoda,Nugegoda,Maharagama,Kaduwela,Malabe,Galkissa etc.
Yeah, love the content. You got a good pace, cut it nicely. I lust love your stuff from Sri Lanka. Been there a lot. You show the feel really good. Keep on making more. Will be watching. Subbed.
I am not quite sure why people think that "Modernity" is the apex of civilization. My parents grew up in a Sri Lanka which would be considered "backward". They lived in low slung bungalows with afternoon tea. Doors were always open for friends and visitors to drop by for a chat. The literacy rate was very high, one of the highest in Asia, schooling was free to the university level as was healthcare. Not yet a consumer culture, nor one of high rise buildings but one filled with seething and rich human interactions.
To enter in to port city you must use the shuttle bus service which is cost less then a euro !! Enjoy your stay and do not assist scammers to cheat you ! Kindly note the information.. enjoy your stay 👍👍
Visit the Eastern Coastal Area of the Island from Trincomalee to Arugam Bay, you can literally experience a completely different experience than other places especially those places are less toouristy.
You're from kazakhstan, a 3rd world country. Do you even have any malls as nice as this in your poor country? Just go back to where you belong if you don't like it there.
Excellent video! Danny, your videos are clear, informative and great speech. Please visit Picotrail, Galoya tank elephants and Minneriya national park in Sri Lanka. Waiting for more videos from Sri Lanka Please.
What's fueling the building boom in all the unlikely places that you've visited? Check out how many locals migrated to Canada and other Western countries and you'll realize a lot of them are investing back in their home countries coz of the overly inflated property markets in their adopted countries. If you think Canada and Australia are the most expensive property markets try buying in these markets with local income. Data from Numbeo; Property Price to Income Ratio 1 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 54.2 2 Doula, Cameroon 48.3 3 Colombo, Sri Lanka 43.3 4 Tehran, Iran 37.7 5 Shanghai, China 36.9 6 Kathmandu, Nepal 35.7 7 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 32.9 8 Manila, Philippines 32.2 9 Guangzhou, China 31.9 10 Beijing, China 31.2
If only Sri Lankans know how to vote for the right leaders, this perfect country wouldn’t have gone into so much debt. Hope Sri Lanka recovers fast and becomes a developed country. I think it has potential.
Ravanan land not Buddhist always you do like this we make you I'm Tamil Hindu all live here Muslim man Hindu man and Buddha that's all if you go to Jaffna you see there is no others
Colombo is a 1-2 days destination. There is nothing to do, nothing to see. For most part, there is also nowhere to walk to since the lack and state of sidewalks. Gas fumes are literally a health hazard. Food is average at best and overpriced compared to rest of country.
@@dilshanNaetothe problem is that Sri Lanka is not a good value for money at all. Everything is pretty much European prices - groceries, restaurants, services…and you go to Thailand, Indonesia, and you get much more for the same money. You go to Vietnam, and you literally pay 1/3 of what you spend in Sri Lanka and also get more for your money.
@@kubowich Then go there lmao no one is stopping you. Sri Lanka looks like an awesome destination for me personally after seeing this guys video. I was in India 2 years ago and it was incredibly polluted and unhygienic compared to what I see in this video which is like a borderline developed country with uncluttered tourism. Definitely my next holiday spot in this December winter season.
CMB nightlife is goated , same with the daytime tjeres alot of places to hangout n have fun time of course the prices are high cuz cmb is the main n most developed city in the island
@@hoehoe360there is nothing goated about Nightlife in CMB…the city is dead by 11PM. And it is not “more expensive”, it is simply overpriced. In Bangkok, Saigon or Kuala Lumpur you get so much more options and for half the prices.
Videos like this is a bit deceiving. Colombo is not clean. There is garbage everywhere. There is quite a bit of new buildings popping up, but street level is not getting renovated. And when it is, it takes years to fix a simple pavement. There will literally be a pile of bricks laying around for years until the work is complete. Infrastructure in general is not great. As for littering, it was better a couple of years ago, as they had a "Green Police" that fined people for littering. The same president who started the department is the same president who bankrupted and stole all the money along with his brother. So there is that. Having no recycling system, open sewage and hardly any garbage collection, it is not a clean city. It does look pretty at night, but not in the daytime. I'll say this though, it is pretty safe. I've never had any problem with people in general even though it's a relatively poor country. Rural areas are better in general, and the countryside is pretty for the most part, but wherever there is some kind of settlement, there is always garbage floating around. However, nowhere near as much as India. And, for all I've said, there's plenty of positive things to say about Sri Lanka other than the negative stuff I just mentioned. I do recommend spending a holiday in Sri Lanka, but don't expect a clean paradise other than in a hotel or guesthouse.
Colombo is clean, its genuinely clean even when you compared to south east asian countries and some cities in china. Im from Vietnam, and compared to our capita, colombo is pretty clean all right. Sri Lanka is a poor country as it is classified as a lower middle income country. What are you on about open Sewage? thats a genuinely false statement, sewege is treated in sewege treatment plants. Although recycling is not mass executed there is are certain regional organisations that does it. Most of the trash it dumped into landfills which are a good distant away from cities. For instance, if you head near the sri lankan parliment where they have tons of canals and stuff you would find them to be clean and have uncontaminated water. You seem to know a lot about Sri Lanka. Are you Sri Lankan or did you spend a lot of time there?
@@WilliamLi-nd4lz I'm not making up stuff, if that's what you think. Open sewage is indeed real, and there is nothing false about it. I have absolutely nothing to gain by giving this information to people. Colombo might be clean compared to larger cities in Vietnam, like Saigon or Manila in the Philippines, but by no means is Colombo clean. There are, of course, some clean areas, mainly business areas, recreation areas or tourist areas. Some areas are better than others, but overall, there is litter wherever you go. As for open sewage, as you questioned, the wastewater management in Sri Lanka is abysmal. It is important to inform people of this, because you can get utterly sick from sewage pollution. Most of the sewage is sent in pipes, rivers and streams straight into the sea. The pipes are laid far away from land, but it's not treated at all. Don't kid yourself if you don't think this is common in most other countries. I live in Norway, one of the most developed countries in the world, and the municipality next to mine, across from the fjord I live in, does exactly the same. They have a main pipe, with all the untreated sewage from the city collected in one giant pipe and then pumped into the middle of the fjord. The municipality does this because it is cheaper to get a fine from the government than building a proper sewage plant. This is pretty common in Asia, particularly coastal cities in Sri Lanka. Sometimes you can see the pipes stopping at the shore, and just pumping out crap, because the municipality can't afford to lay pipe into the ocean. If I want to go to the beach and have a swim, I always stay away from a beach that has a river or stream running into it nearby, as it will most likely be polluted, unless you are in a national park or close to one. Sewage connections are only available for certain areas in Colombo, meaning wealthy residential areas and business areas. Some people have septic tanks that get emptied, and that stuff is treated. Most wastewater is not treated. Blackwater (from toilets) is sometimes treated, but greywater (water from shower and sinks) is almost not treated at all. There are areas in Colombo with closed sewage and proper manholes, but that is certainly not the standard. If there is a high-rise building nearby, then most likely there is proper sewage. As for the rest of the residential areas in the city, the sewage is indeed open. By open, I mean that there are ditches dug next to the streets which are covered with cement lids, but the lids have large holes in them to let the gases out. That's along the streets where you walk. There are other ditches too that run inbetween buildings, which are not often seen, and they are indeed open, and not covered at all. There is one right next door ro my wife's house in Colombo, through the neighbour's plot. They are very common. A quick Google search tells me that 3% of rural sewage is treated, and 12% of urban areas discharge wastewater (black and grey) into sewage for treatment. Most of the aforementioned trenches and ditches does not go to a water filtration plant. They run into rivers, streams, lakes and the sea. Most of it goes into a stream and then into the sea. Every open water source in Colombo is polluted by sewage, just so you know. When the parliament was taken over about a year ago or so, they threw many of the politicians into the nearby lake outside of the parliament. Most of them got sick because the water is contaminated by sewage. There are many clips on TH-cam, you should check it out. When asked if they can have something to drink, they are served cups of tea while standing in the brown water of the lake. Never, ever should you drink form a stream, a lake or wash your clothes in it for that matter, unless you are living in the highlands or Sri Lanka, like Nuwara Elia, Hatton or the Knuckles mountain range. Lowland and coastal water is the most polluted. This stuff goes into the groundwater and contaminates drinking wells too. If you're in an area that has been flooded, the open sewage spills into the streets, and there will be sewage in the water 100%.
Let's not forget how the Sinhalese murdered tens of thousands of Tamils, and forced Tamils out of the country. The Tamils' right to their property is being stripped away at the moment. Sri Lanka burned Christians covid dead bodies, instead of burying them. Right now, Sri Lanka's economy is in shambles, their neck is under the Chinese so to say.
The economy is not in shambles RIGHT NOW, it WAS in shambles 2 years ago. Today Sri Lankan economy has already bounced back, growing at 3% per annum in 2024
So you saying because a religion we need to risk public health . And ltte used tamils as human shield . They bombed to colobo,kandy . They killed 41 monks in a bus and killed 142000 sinhalese .
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00:00 Intro Sri Lanka
00:53 Crazy Modern Development
03:40 Almost Lost Wallet
04:30 Modern Mall
07:30 Galle Face
12:30 Heading to Port City
14:07 Port City
17:30 Colombo has a Beach?
20:00 Summary and Plans in SL
Welcome back bro 🇱🇰
I cant belived this is sri lanka..what a beautiful country clean and modern... Greeting from land of 9 king malaysia..
Exactly im utterly shocked just how much cleaner Sri Lanka is compared to India even though its literally off the coast of India. I was in India 2 years ago and my god..
it is anything but modern
@@fired_dumbo123 you must living in Manhattan 😘
Clean and Modern? Common.
Modern in what sense, Tell me any achievement made by Sri Lanka so far.
I find Sri Lankan history a great achievement. From fighting off invaders from 900s to 1815 and literally spreading Theravada Buddhism to Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam etc@@shiningstone6771
What blows my mind is just how insanely clean and orderly this place is compared to India. I was in India 2 years ago and this is like a different universe. The roads are MUCH cleaner and marked. Very impressed I hope to visit SL for my next holiday after seeing this. Im genuinely impressed.
i thought srilanka sold his land to china. especially Colombo
@@pra3sh746never did there only like 2 buildings that belongs to china and still government has most shares, people just saying it because we take loans from china but in reality every country takes loans.. usa has like 3t usd debt like Bangladesh has 180b usd n sl has only 30b... Sri Lanka takes loans mostly from china due to relations
@@pra3sh746 there’s the Hambanthota port and that isn’t owned by China it’s on a lease and I think what you’re mostly referring to with your comment is Port city in Colombo that’s a different economic zone of its own and it’s a PPP with FDI inflows from many countries,so there’s a difference between selling land,leasing and direct investments.Also,Port city is still in development.
@@Pixeelated Right on,we did default on our loans due to decades of economic mismanagement and projects that didn’t generate any export revenue so that is to be expected but I would say it’s a rough comment to say we sold land to China,our corruption is bad but this isn’t like Africa where China can simply buy mineral rights and what not.
Welcome to SriLanka. As a srilankan who grew up in India for 15 years, I assure you, SL is way different.
Im from Bangalore India and I have Sri lankan friends. We so keep visiting each other.
I love SL. The landsacapes, the estates, colombo, wildlife, there is so much to explore. More than anything else, the people are super nice.
Good wishes to my lankan friends
Another man showing the truth of this nation ❤❤ thankyou very 🙏
Dany, you lucky dog that humanity still has good people by returning your wallet. Thanks for showing the awesome designs of building and structure.
Sri Lanka at its best :D
00:28 as I guess this is a architecture of MR.CICIL BALMOND , a sri lankan architecture ,he is also designed the CCTV headquarters of beijing china , both are masterpieces
ITC is scheduled to open on April 25th, 2024
if you like visit colombo suburb as well. You will discover lot of unexplored things in those suburb areas as well. Actually the colombo main city is just a small part of the greater colombo. There are many more sorounding cities around the colombo main city like Sri jayawardenapura kotte[capital city of Sri lanka],Talawatugoda,Nugegoda,Maharagama,Kaduwela,Malabe,Galkissa etc.
Welcome back 🙏🏽 our beautiful island 🏝️ of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰.. hope you have a fantastic time and thanks so much for all your videos about Sri Lanka 🙏🏽👍
Can't wait to watch the other videos of the series.❤
The legend is back in SL again
Enjoy watching! Another great video!!
Yeah, love the content. You got a good pace, cut it nicely. I lust love your stuff from Sri Lanka. Been there a lot. You show the feel really good. Keep on making more. Will be watching. Subbed.
Country modern, most people are modern, politicians are ancient 😂😂😂😂
true
As a Sri Lankan I wholeheartedly agree with this
Why when "most people are modern" cannot elect better politicians?
Welcome back bro🇱🇰
Spa Ceylon is a local cosmetic products. Mainly herbal. Good stuff
Thank you for your Sri Lankan videos, Love it
That black colour in shoreline is graphite.
Thank you from a Sri Lankan in Germany who hasn't been back for over 5 years - Amazing video!
If you see on the map it's very original how the country is almost all surrounded by sea, almost stuck to India.❤❤❤
Hi ,Danny welcome ...... please get rural Sri Lanka experience, Srl Lanka has so many beautiful places to must visi ,not only touristic places.
Welcome back bro 🎉
wow what a country loving it already
I am not quite sure why people think that "Modernity" is the apex of civilization. My parents grew up in a Sri Lanka which would be considered "backward". They lived in low slung bungalows with afternoon tea. Doors were always open for friends and visitors to drop by for a chat. The literacy rate was very high, one of the highest in Asia, schooling was free to the university level as was healthcare. Not yet a consumer culture, nor one of high rise buildings but one filled with seething and rich human interactions.
Very really true. Still we are a big Nation of Tradition, Culture, Religious, Respectful, Hospitable & More
Good to see you back in my home country ! your videos are fantastic !
A great video, one of the best I’ve seen regarding Colombo city, it’s a documentary quality stuff, hats off. 👍
To enter in to port city you must use the shuttle bus service which is cost less then a euro !! Enjoy your stay and do not assist scammers to cheat you ! Kindly note the information.. enjoy your stay 👍👍
a romanian fan u met in colombo ..small world ay!
Hey Dany, thanks for your videos! Are you planning to visit the East and the North (especially Jaffna)?
yeah, Danny my Tamil friends in Jaffna are so welcoming..get the adventure from there as well from south Colombo friend!
make sure u carry enough water bc its kinda hot at the nothern part of sl
Loving your content!
Visit the Eastern Coastal Area of the Island from Trincomalee to Arugam Bay, you can literally experience a completely different experience than other places especially those places are less toouristy.
wow! amazing vibe in Sri lanka..
Hi dany. I'm sameera. From sri lanka.
The only genuine Buddhist country
Yes our culture and value system is Buddhist... I am a christian. We all can live in harmony. This is what's good about Buddhist culture!
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Genuine Buddhism , 😂 in Sri Lanka 🤔😂😂😂.
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@@prasannavisvalinkam do you have any problem with buddhist culture?
Welcome bro love it 🇱🇰
Thanks bro :D
Thanks for your great videos 👌💪
I am literally Sri Lankan Colombo is beautiful also visit Sri Lanka cause it’s a beautiful country
From my understanding Spa Ceylon offers Ayurveda-based wellness beauty products and services.
Welcome back ❤❤
Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, tourists paradise in the Asia.
Thak you for visiting Sri Lanka. Please pay a visit in next year too.❤
When I go to this mall, I want to cry. Please don’t make people believe it’s so great, cuz it’s not. They have a long way to go.
You're from kazakhstan, a 3rd world country. Do you even have any malls as nice as this in your poor country? Just go back to where you belong if you don't like it there.
Excellent video! Danny, your videos are clear, informative and great speech. Please visit Picotrail, Galoya tank elephants and Minneriya national park in Sri Lanka. Waiting for more videos from Sri Lanka Please.
I am actually from Sri Lanka, and I agree, people do go out of their way to be nice here (myself included lol)
Welcome Sri Lanka🇱🇰
if you interesting, please go to the Havelock city mall complex... it's a another newly open city mall in Colombo. please go . it's a nice place.
I am Indian like colmbo ❤❤
16:24 that's graphite. Not dirt
thanks for the video
Hi Dany, you are always welcome to SL
Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ❤️
Oh welcome back brother😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What's fueling the building boom in all the unlikely places that you've visited? Check out how many locals migrated to Canada and other Western countries and you'll realize a lot of them are investing back in their home countries coz of the overly inflated property markets in their adopted countries. If you think Canada and Australia are the most expensive property markets try buying in these markets with local income. Data from Numbeo;
Property Price to Income Ratio
1 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 54.2
2 Doula, Cameroon 48.3
3 Colombo, Sri Lanka 43.3
4 Tehran, Iran 37.7
5 Shanghai, China 36.9
6 Kathmandu, Nepal 35.7
7 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 32.9
8 Manila, Philippines 32.2
9 Guangzhou, China 31.9
10 Beijing, China 31.2
Welcome back brother 🇱🇰
There was a article about ur this srilanka serious in a weekend news paper ❤
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Welcome to Colombo brother
Sri Lanka ❤
wow their rivers are not blocked with rubbish
This is my tropical island.🙏❤️
Welcome to Sri lanka ❤
Comrade Danny...
Welcome again to sri Lanka🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
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Wow a paradise
If only Sri Lankans know how to vote for the right leaders, this perfect country wouldn’t have gone into so much debt. Hope Sri Lanka recovers fast and becomes a developed country. I think it has potential.
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Ravanan land not Buddhist always you do like this we make you
I'm Tamil Hindu all live here Muslim man Hindu man and Buddha that's all if you go to Jaffna you see there is no others
what do u expect? lmao they are pretty much the whole population if there arent those people who should be there?indians?americans?brits?chinese?
Another delusional Tamil 😂
Colombo is a 1-2 days destination. There is nothing to do, nothing to see. For most part, there is also nowhere to walk to since the lack and state of sidewalks. Gas fumes are literally a health hazard. Food is average at best and overpriced compared to rest of country.
For Indians it's bit expensive
@@dilshanNaetothe problem is that Sri Lanka is not a good value for money at all. Everything is pretty much European prices - groceries, restaurants, services…and you go to Thailand, Indonesia, and you get much more for the same money. You go to Vietnam, and you literally pay 1/3 of what you spend in Sri Lanka and also get more for your money.
@@kubowich Then go there lmao no one is stopping you. Sri Lanka looks like an awesome destination for me personally after seeing this guys video. I was in India 2 years ago and it was incredibly polluted and unhygienic compared to what I see in this video which is like a borderline developed country with uncluttered tourism. Definitely my next holiday spot in this December winter season.
CMB nightlife is goated , same with the daytime tjeres alot of places to hangout n have fun time of course the prices are high cuz cmb is the main n most developed city in the island
@@hoehoe360there is nothing goated about Nightlife in CMB…the city is dead by 11PM. And it is not “more expensive”, it is simply overpriced. In Bangkok, Saigon or Kuala Lumpur you get so much more options and for half the prices.
Videos like this is a bit deceiving. Colombo is not clean. There is garbage everywhere. There is quite a bit of new buildings popping up, but street level is not getting renovated. And when it is, it takes years to fix a simple pavement. There will literally be a pile of bricks laying around for years until the work is complete. Infrastructure in general is not great. As for littering, it was better a couple of years ago, as they had a "Green Police" that fined people for littering. The same president who started the department is the same president who bankrupted and stole all the money along with his brother. So there is that. Having no recycling system, open sewage and hardly any garbage collection, it is not a clean city. It does look pretty at night, but not in the daytime. I'll say this though, it is pretty safe. I've never had any problem with people in general even though it's a relatively poor country. Rural areas are better in general, and the countryside is pretty for the most part, but wherever there is some kind of settlement, there is always garbage floating around. However, nowhere near as much as India. And, for all I've said, there's plenty of positive things to say about Sri Lanka other than the negative stuff I just mentioned. I do recommend spending a holiday in Sri Lanka, but don't expect a clean paradise other than in a hotel or guesthouse.
Colombo is clean, its genuinely clean even when you compared to south east asian countries and some cities in china. Im from Vietnam, and compared to our capita, colombo is pretty clean all right.
Sri Lanka is a poor country as it is classified as a lower middle income country. What are you on about open Sewage? thats a genuinely false statement, sewege is treated in sewege treatment plants. Although recycling is not mass executed there is are certain regional organisations that does it. Most of the trash it dumped into landfills which are a good distant away from cities. For instance, if you head near the sri lankan parliment where they have tons of canals and stuff you would find them to be clean and have uncontaminated water.
You seem to know a lot about Sri Lanka. Are you Sri Lankan or did you spend a lot of time there?
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I'm not making up stuff, if that's what you think. Open sewage is indeed real, and there is nothing false about it. I have absolutely nothing to gain by giving this information to people.
Colombo might be clean compared to larger cities in Vietnam, like Saigon or Manila in the Philippines, but by no means is Colombo clean. There are, of course, some clean areas, mainly business areas, recreation areas or tourist areas. Some areas are better than others, but overall, there is litter wherever you go.
As for open sewage, as you questioned, the wastewater management in Sri Lanka is abysmal. It is important to inform people of this, because you can get utterly sick from sewage pollution.
Most of the sewage is sent in pipes, rivers and streams straight into the sea. The pipes are laid far away from land, but it's not treated at all. Don't kid yourself if you don't think this is common in most other countries. I live in Norway, one of the most developed countries in the world, and the municipality next to mine, across from the fjord I live in, does exactly the same. They have a main pipe, with all the untreated sewage from the city collected in one giant pipe and then pumped into the middle of the fjord. The municipality does this because it is cheaper to get a fine from the government than building a proper sewage plant. This is pretty common in Asia, particularly coastal cities in Sri Lanka. Sometimes you can see the pipes stopping at the shore, and just pumping out crap, because the municipality can't afford to lay pipe into the ocean.
If I want to go to the beach and have a swim, I always stay away from a beach that has a river or stream running into it nearby, as it will most likely be polluted, unless you are in a national park or close to one.
Sewage connections are only available for certain areas in Colombo, meaning wealthy residential areas and business areas. Some people have septic tanks that get emptied, and that stuff is treated. Most wastewater is not treated. Blackwater (from toilets) is sometimes treated, but greywater (water from shower and sinks) is almost not treated at all. There are areas in Colombo with closed sewage and proper manholes, but that is certainly not the standard. If there is a high-rise building nearby, then most likely there is proper sewage. As for the rest of the residential areas in the city, the sewage is indeed open. By open, I mean that there are ditches dug next to the streets which are covered with cement lids, but the lids have large holes in them to let the gases out. That's along the streets where you walk. There are other ditches too that run inbetween buildings, which are not often seen, and they are indeed open, and not covered at all. There is one right next door ro my wife's house in Colombo, through the neighbour's plot. They are very common.
A quick Google search tells me that 3% of rural sewage is treated, and 12% of urban areas discharge wastewater (black and grey) into sewage for treatment. Most of the aforementioned trenches and ditches does not go to a water filtration plant. They run into rivers, streams, lakes and the sea. Most of it goes into a stream and then into the sea. Every open water source in Colombo is polluted by sewage, just so you know.
When the parliament was taken over about a year ago or so, they threw many of the politicians into the nearby lake outside of the parliament. Most of them got sick because the water is contaminated by sewage. There are many clips on TH-cam, you should check it out. When asked if they can have something to drink, they are served cups of tea while standing in the brown water of the lake.
Never, ever should you drink form a stream, a lake or wash your clothes in it for that matter, unless you are living in the highlands or Sri Lanka, like Nuwara Elia, Hatton or the Knuckles mountain range. Lowland and coastal water is the most polluted. This stuff goes into the groundwater and contaminates drinking wells too. If you're in an area that has been flooded, the open sewage spills into the streets, and there will be sewage in the water 100%.
@@Suspended.Solitude spot on
Let's not forget how the Sinhalese murdered tens of thousands of Tamils, and forced Tamils out of the country. The Tamils' right to their property is being stripped away at the moment. Sri Lanka burned Christians covid dead bodies, instead of burying them. Right now, Sri Lanka's economy is in shambles, their neck is under the Chinese so to say.
The economy is not in shambles RIGHT NOW, it WAS in shambles 2 years ago. Today Sri Lankan economy has already bounced back, growing at 3% per annum in 2024
So you saying because a religion we need to risk public health . And ltte used tamils as human shield . They bombed to colobo,kandy . They killed 41 monks in a bus and killed 142000 sinhalese .
Where are you from mate?
Again victim card 🤣
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