Colombo
One day in Colombo, Sri Lanka
A day through Colombo’s best-known sights that lie close together: Viharamahadevi Park, Colombo National Art Gallery, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Colombo and Sri Lanka Planetarium. 5 stops, about 1.6 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Viharamahadevi ParkPark · On the map
- Colombo National Art GalleryMuseum · 0.3 km on from Viharamahadevi Park · On the map
- National Museum of Natural HistoryMuseum · 0.1 km on from Colombo National Art Gallery · On the map
- National Museum of ColomboMuseum · 0.1 km on from National Museum of Natural History · On the map
- Sri Lanka PlanetariumMuseum · 1 km on from National Museum of Colombo · On the map
5 stops, about 1.6 km between them in straight lines.
More for Colombo
- Things to do in Colombo, Sri Lanka · 12 places to see, led by National Museum of Colombo and Galle Face Green
Photo credits
- Viharamahadevi Park: A.Savin, FAL
- National Museum of Natural History: AntanO, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Museum of Colombo: A.Savin, FAL
- Sri Lanka Planetarium: Anufdo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.