Captivating Colombo

I decided to post a collection of photos I took in my hometown Colombo, Sri Lanka recently. Last
week I featured a similar blog post about Kandy, Sri Lanka. As I don’t live in Sri Lanka, being in my
hometown is a special experience. One of the things I like about Colombo is the urban atmosphere
and I am featuring that here. I am also including some nature. It is good how Colombo has a lot of
trees, which can be seen in most of these photos. We begin with a picture that has many trees. 

Inside Independence Square.

Roundabout on Independence Avenue.

Roads near Independence Square.

Buildings in Wellawatte.

Taken from the De Soysa Circus near Town Hall.

A railway line by the beach.

The top of a road.

Cafes outside the main ODEL store.

Photos of Colombo at night.

Trees alongside white buildings.

Walking path outside Viharamahadevi Park.

Highway entering Colombo.

Havelock Town suburb.

View of Beira Lake taken from Colombo City Centre.

So that was my selection of photos from Colombo, one of the leading cities of South Asia. 

Virtual Views of Colombo, Sri Lanka

This post is about my hometown Colombo, Sri Lanka which I love. I’m giving virtual views of

Colombo embedded via Google Street View. This is the second blog post of mine featuring Sri Lankan Google Street Views. The previous post I wrote about the subject was “Showcasing Sri Lanka from Google Street View”. In the Google Street View embeds, you have the ability to explore it in this post. If any of the embedded content doesn’t load, you can click the “View on Google Maps” button which will open it in a new window in a larger size. Let’s start.

Here’s a view of the road W.A.D. Ramanayake Mawatha.

Here’s a green area in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.

On a bridge in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.

Here’s another picture of a bridge and a lake. This time it’s in reverse to what was shown previously.
The previous image was taken from the bridge where the bridge was the main focus and the lake
being secondary. This image has the lake Beira Lake being the main focus and the bridge being
secondary. This bridge is a pedestrian bridge unlike the previous bridge.  

The very green Viharamahadevi Park.

This is the Lipton Circus roundabout with the ODEL logo as that business is in this area.

The road Police Park Avenue which offers a good Sri Lankan design.

Here’s the well known road Horton Place.

An interesting building on Marine Drive.

Bellanwila Park in Boralesgamuwa.

A view of Vidya Mawatha.

The approximately 20 metre wide road Elvitigala Mawatha.

Here’s MillenniumIT’s (a Sri Lankan based international IT company) Colombo office.

Here’s Lotus Road.

An interesting building.

The Hyde Park Grounds.

The road Barnes Place.

The Department of National Archives by the Torrington Walking Path.

Here’s a look at the Bambalapitiya Flats Grounds.

This is the well known road R.A. De Mel Mawatha with modern buildings on both sides.

I hope you enjoyed my selection of places in Colombo, Sri Lanka. One of the good features of

Colombo is how it mixes the contrasting elements of buildings and trees together in an identifiably

Sri Lankan way. I tried to showcase both buildings and green scenery. This is a visual reflection of

Colombo, a key city in South Asia.