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.  

Exploring Dubai via Google Street View

Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a part of the world I’ve never been to, but find interesting. I hope to go there one day. In this post I’m embedding areas from Google Street View of Dubai. I’ll give a description above each embedded view. The user can explore these embedded views in the blog post as well as make the embed full screen via the icon on the right hand side or open it in a larger sized new window by clicking the “View on Google Maps” button. If any of the embedded areas do not load in this blog post, you’ll be able to see them through the “View on Google Maps” button.

Here’s an area by the Dubai Mall. It has short palm trees, a wide calm highway and buildings.

Here’s a nice combination of green grass and buildings in Burj Park.

Fountains, Palm Trees and Buildings.

A nice set of buildings.

A road in Dubai.

A view from the Al Garhoud Bridge.

Festival Boulevard.

Buildings and Palm Trees.

The Emirates Towers.

Buildings, Palm Trees, a Lake and Parklands.

Inside Dubai International Airport.

First Al Khail Street.

Looking up at the buildings.

Buildings on a sunny day.

A view from the bridge on Al A’mal Street

The edge of Creek Park.

Buildings, Cars and Green Scenery.

Buildings, an Overpass, Palm Trees, a Lake and Fountains.

On the D73 Road.

Palm tree paintings.

Inside Dubai Creek Golf.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Feel free to comment. I’m interested in hearing from those who live in Dubai, have lived in Dubai or are a native Dubaian.