National Museum of Colombo · photo: A.Savin, FAL

Self-guided walking tour of Colombo

20 sights · Sri Lanka · capital

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Colombo, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

• Architecture (10)
• Museums (6)
• History (2)
• Parks & green (1)
• Art & sculpture (1)

3-hour walk past the highlights of Colombo

7 stops · 5.8 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

1. Photo: Mithila Madawa Gunathilake, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 3 min walkCenotaph War Memorial, Colombo
2. Photo: A.Savin, FAL
   🚶 5 min walkViharamahadevi Park
3. Photo: Mohamed Rilwan1210, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 26 min walkLotus Tower
4. Photo: A.Savin, FAL
   🚶 24 min walkTown Hall, Colombo
5. 🚶 10 min walkNelum Pokuna Performing Arts Theatre
6. Photo: A.Savin, FAL
   🚶 5 min walkNational Museum of Colombo
7. 🚶 3 min walkColombo National Art Gallery

More well-known sights in Colombo

1. Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque
2. St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade
3. St. Lucia's Cathedral
4. Wolvendaal Church
5. Temple Trees
6. Postal museum, Colombo
7. Colombo Port Maritime Museum
8. Colombo Grand Mosque
9. Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour
10. Currency museum
11. National Museum of Natural History
12. Empire
13. Lionel Wendt Art Centre