Colombo Tour Packages from Malaysia

Colombo is the city most visitors arrive in and leave too quickly. It deserves more time. Layered over centuries of colonial rule — Portuguese, Dutch and British — and built on a Sinhalese and Tamil foundation that goes back millennia, Colombo is one of the most interesting cities in South Asia. The Old Dutch Hospital, now a restaurant and boutique complex, sits in the Fort district alongside colonial government buildings and the city's oldest mosque. In the Pettah Bazaar, one of the busiest markets in the Indian Ocean region, you can buy everything from spices to gems to mobile phones in a single city block. The Gangaramaya Temple is a layered accumulation of Buddhist architecture, art and devotional objects that tells the whole history of the city in one complex. The National Museum has the best collection of Sri Lankan antiquities outside of the island's archaeological sites. And Galle Face Green — the colonial-era promenade facing the Indian Ocean — is where all of Colombo comes at sunset for kite flying, street food and the first sea breeze of the evening. Every Sri Lanka package from Dhesu begins and ends in Colombo. Most include a city tour. Dhesu has been arranging Colombo visits since 1988.