Da kommen schöne Erinnerungen hoch, ich war das erste Mal 1994 in Sri Lanka und dann elf weitere Male bis 2020.... Habe dort gute Freunde und ein Patenkind und hoffe, dort bald wieder mal hinreisen zu können
@@elkhorn360 wie gesagt, ich war schon 12 mal in Sri Lanka und habe dort sehr gute Freunde und ein patenkind bin aber derzeit finanziell nicht in der Lage mir eine neue Reise zu finanzieren. Als es mir noch gut ging finanziell bin ich mit einem Freund zweimal in der Business-Klasse von Sri lankan Airlines geflogen, einmal 2014 und dann 2016, aber jetzt sind die Preise so unverschämt hoch, dass dies nicht mehr geht. Besonders schlimm ist es, dass in Beruwela eine riesige Hotelanlage als Ruine herumsteht, ein Projekt der Familie Rajapakse, was dort überhaupt nicht hin passt und den Strand völlig zerstört. Ich war immer Gast in einem der ältesten Hotels in Bentota, früher Lihiniya Surf, jetzt Ekho Surf Hotel, das zwar alt ist aber immer wieder renoviert und verbessert wurde.... Es ist und bleibt mein absoluter Sehnsuchtsort. Ich wünsche dem Land endlich verantwortliche Politiker und keine Versklavung durch China. Die Tourismusbehörde von Sri Lanka muss sich viel aktiver um seine Repeater kümmern, die dem Land die Treue halten....hier passiert zu wenig und es gibt zu viel Management im Tourismus, dass sich selbst immer bevorteilt, und sehr egoistisch die Vorteile der Hotels ausnutzt.
This video is gold. This is the same year i was born. You must have felt like an alien holding a vhs camera in 1997 colombo. Its extremely sad to say that the country still faces the same amount of corruption, bribery and mismanagement to this very day just like in 1997. With the new government we chose on September 21st 2024, we are hoping for a new and clean sri lanka. A Sri Lanka with an extremely developed public transportation system so there would be no motorbikes, trishaws and cars parked or roaming around throughout a busy city like colombo taking public spaces. A sri lanka with zero corruption and bribery so the poor regular people can experience equal rights. A sri lanka with a wonderfully rich tourism industry which takes care of its foreign tourists and make their lives so easy in our country. A highly digitalized sri lanka where everyone is able to get anything done in minutes without any fuzz. Being 4 months after the initial decision, I still think we made the right choice that day about choosing AKD for this cruel battle.❤❤
Except for public transport, Colombo has improved quite a lot from those days and become a modern vibrant city that is on par with most East Asian cities
i don't think so. look how china, korea, japan, i mean except for countries like india Pakistan all other nations have achieved a remarkable development. we are much behind
I don't know about some of these comments, but areas like yolk street is heavily modernised,wtc and colombo in general seems more well organized today than back then
i hate people like you who doesnt like to aknowledge the advancements this country has made despite political and economic turmoil. Mind u when this video was filmed sri lanka was a poor country with a low HDI. Our per capita income has more than quadrupled since then.
Thank you ! Uploading this remembered the past
Da kommen schöne Erinnerungen hoch, ich war das erste Mal 1994 in Sri Lanka und dann elf weitere Male bis 2020.... Habe dort gute Freunde und ein Patenkind und hoffe, dort bald wieder mal hinreisen zu können
Bitte besuchen Sie Sri Lanka noch einmal 😇
@@elkhorn360 wie gesagt, ich war schon 12 mal in Sri Lanka und habe dort sehr gute Freunde und ein patenkind bin aber derzeit finanziell nicht in der Lage mir eine neue Reise zu finanzieren. Als es mir noch gut ging finanziell bin ich mit einem Freund zweimal in der Business-Klasse von Sri lankan Airlines geflogen, einmal 2014 und dann 2016, aber jetzt sind die Preise so unverschämt hoch, dass dies nicht mehr geht. Besonders schlimm ist es, dass in Beruwela eine riesige Hotelanlage als Ruine herumsteht, ein Projekt der Familie Rajapakse, was dort überhaupt nicht hin passt und den Strand völlig zerstört. Ich war immer Gast in einem der ältesten Hotels in Bentota, früher Lihiniya Surf, jetzt Ekho Surf Hotel, das zwar alt ist aber immer wieder renoviert und verbessert wurde.... Es ist und bleibt mein absoluter Sehnsuchtsort. Ich wünsche dem Land endlich verantwortliche Politiker und keine Versklavung durch China.
Die Tourismusbehörde von Sri Lanka muss sich viel aktiver um seine Repeater kümmern, die dem Land die Treue halten....hier passiert zu wenig und es gibt zu viel Management im Tourismus, dass sich selbst immer bevorteilt, und sehr egoistisch die Vorteile der Hotels ausnutzt.
❤❤❤❤
@lakshan4138 thx from Germany, Berlin
Please visit us again!!! Love from Sri Lanka❤❤❤
Without tuk tuk very calm in towns
There were tuks I remember but not too many. It was different then.
Huge thanks for the upload! :))
Me video eka athulin e kalayata yanna tiyenam apita eyalata kiyanna kochchara dewal tiyeda 😇😇🥺🥺🥺🥺
Do you have a video recording of Maradana railway station during this time ?
No,this Video is all I have!
This video is gold. This is the same year i was born. You must have felt like an alien holding a vhs camera in 1997 colombo. Its extremely sad to say that the country still faces the same amount of corruption, bribery and mismanagement to this very day just like in 1997. With the new government we chose on September 21st 2024, we are hoping for a new and clean sri lanka. A Sri Lanka with an extremely developed public transportation system so there would be no motorbikes, trishaws and cars parked or roaming around throughout a busy city like colombo taking public spaces. A sri lanka with zero corruption and bribery so the poor regular people can experience equal rights. A sri lanka with a wonderfully rich tourism industry which takes care of its foreign tourists and make their lives so easy in our country. A highly digitalized sri lanka where everyone is able to get anything done in minutes without any fuzz. Being 4 months after the initial decision, I still think we made the right choice that day about choosing AKD for this cruel battle.❤❤
i love this old vibe 😍
Except for public transport, Colombo has improved quite a lot from those days and become a modern vibrant city that is on par with most East Asian cities
i don't think so. look how china, korea, japan, i mean except for countries like india Pakistan all other nations have achieved a remarkable development. we are much behind
East Asian countries are relatively poor other than Singapore, and we aren't even close to Singapore
තාමත් පාරෙ දුවන්නෙ ඒ වාහන ටිකමයි. 🙂
3:36 මේ ඉන්නේ මගේ lover මෙය ඒ කාලේ අතරමං උන පෙට වලදී මේ video බලං ඉන්නවා නම් මේකට reply දන්නෝ
nothing changed still the same after 28 years-
Your eyes have a problem then.
Lol colombo looks so modern and clean now😅
Sri Lanka is beautiful nothing has changed Trains and cars have improved a lot.
අද colombo ගැන ගවුරවය ගෝඨාභය ට හිමිවිය යුතුයි.
yes indeed 😍 but i love the old vibe
ගෝටාගේ ප ක
😂
💯❤
හොරාකාපුවගෙන් 1%ක් විතර දාලා ඔච්චර කරානං ඔක්කොම වියදම් කරලා දියුනු කරානං කොහොමට තියෙයිද
අවුරුදු 27ටත් ලොකු වෙනසක් වෙලා නෑ
වෙලා තියෙනව හොදටම දූෂණය වෙලා.
if you have more videos pls upload
It feels strange watching this. Jogs some of your memories buried deep within. So much has changed but at the same time, so little has changed.
Lowkey calm tho❤️
1997 අපි හරි නොදියුනු පාටයි වනචාරින් ව ගේ දුමිරියට ගොඩවන්ෙන දුමිරියත් දුවිලි වලින් පිරිල හරිම අපිරිසිදුයි ෙකාලබ නගරය එම කාෙල වැහැල නැහැ අවුරැදුදකින් විතර 2025 තිබෙන වෙනස පුදුමයි
දැනුත් එහෙම තමයි (මිනිස්සු)
Thank you very much for thus vedio.
my childhood days i have spent here
I don't know about some of these comments, but areas like yolk street is heavily modernised,wtc and colombo in general seems more well organized today than back then
11:45 then and now tuk drivers havent had much decipline
Mama ipaduna year eka
no pollution… most simple and environmentally friendly era of my country
ද ැන් ෙකාලබ නගරය ලස්සණයි
එච්චර දියුණුව ක් නැහැ ඒක මදි
@@athuladissanayake2262 oya hadanna ehenam
Uba hukhn@@athuladissanayake2262
පකක් ලස්සනයි
විෂබීජ say like that ඕක නෙ ඉතින් රනිල් කරන්න හිටියෙ😂💔
Insane how the vehicles still look more or less the same.
any colombo 02 the slave island footage
Isusara mana ipadilavatg me dewal dakinakota dn idan balankota mn🤔
Anurata thami me okikoma sri lankava
ලොකු වෙනසක් වෙලා නෑ එදත් ඒ වගේමයි අදත් ඒ වගේමයි හැබැයි පොඩි පොඩි වෙනස්කම් තියෙනවා
Mahinda nattam me kaiyanayaka pacha padastharayonta raganna ratak naha.kelehi gunayaka danne nathi ballo. Lankave inna gon nambo chande deela genapu pacha hatta thama lankave evunta arinna patan gatta vitharai balan idahalla. Kalakanni jeppo
0:10 😮 අම්මටසිරි වෙරලක් තිබිලා
26 years have passed and SL is still the same 😏
Yup SL will always be a $h!thole
i hate people like you who doesnt like to aknowledge the advancements this country has made despite political and economic turmoil. Mind u when this video was filmed sri lanka was a poor country with a low HDI. Our per capita income has more than quadrupled since then.
Not in terms of look and vibe. but economy is worse
Shuvar ekatama Uba jebaiyek
Gothaya thoge ass pottada
Balapiya issara apilivela.mahindai gotatai pin
Siddavenna thopi yahathi husma aran juwathvenava
Makabavila Pala karuneta ipaduccha gunamaku hattha
@@dinithaw how is worse? What was SL's economy back then?
Seems Nothing has Changed, Shows how much of a Back-Water Sri Lanka is!
Then your eyes are not working
මහින්ද ජනාධිපති වෙන්න කලින් ශ්රී ලංකාව..හැමෝම බලා ගනිල්ලා...
Ow eh kale horakan nah neh 😂
ඔය තියෙන්නේ ලස්සනට😂 මොකක්ද ප්රශ්නේ😂😂
@@binurasethiya4629 උඹ ආසද කාලතරණය කරලා 1997ට යන්න? 2000න් පස්සෙ ඉපදුන ගොබ්බයෙක් හැර ඕන මිනිහෙක් දන්නවා මේ වගේ නොදියුණු තත්වෙක තිබ්බ රටක් කට ඇරලා මේ මගේ රට කියන්න පුළුවන් විදියට දියුණු කරේ මහින්ද.
Ow ai itin..pako a heththa horskankarala mulu ratama kewa..lewakapan puka..thuk nodakin topiwge gon amana pukadenno
@@godfreymartis1235higana jepponta ithin me tikath athi
1997 mama o/l lavel kara... c.kumara madam 2.50 paan ratal dunna war kala...akd janadebade tuma paan raatal 110.120.130...😂😂😂😂
වීඩියෝගත කරල තියෙන්නෙ කොටියෙක්ද මන්ද..හරිම අමුත්තක් දැනෙනව..පරණ එකක් වුනත් 🤔
Hamadema hodai wage eth kochchara bayen hitapu kalayakda😢
The railway station is same as now days 😂
Den thiyena godak building a kaaleth thibila thiyenaeane.
👍
Man time passed 😢
1:59 haha Pramuka bank.
මෙලෝ රහක් නෑ, කිසිම ලස්ස්නක් පිලිවෙලක් නෑ. මහින්ද ලොක්කට credit දිය යුතුමයි අද තත්වයට කොළඹ ගෙනාවට.
Adatath oya wage than one tharam kolamba thiyanawa 😂
අනේ බත් බැලයො මහින්ද ලොක්කට අම්මව දීපං
Ithin hutto un baleta pathwenne rata hadanna thama amuthuwen credit denne pakatada ?
my date of birth 1997 May 10th
Tawamat pawment eke jokku vikunanawa.
එහෙමට වෙනසක් නැ 😊
😢😊😅
❤️
Nothing much has changed
කාගෙවත් කනේ පෝන් ගහගෙන නැහැ
Mahinda gota nettam ,oya burana jvp kakkanta inna wenneth oya agu pil walamai
Punde ltte lost 😂😂
Punde loan lanka begging 😂
no change
Still same Siri lanka
blind?
@dinithwen wena ratawal ekk balahan pimpiyo thama ethanama thama😂
Tamat gobba lankawa e widiyamai😂
Ou ban😂
@@Thejapriya have you been to Colombo?