3 Hour Private Colombo Street Food Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Dutch Hospital Shopping Precinct

  The Old Colombo Dutch Hospital is considered to be the oldest building in the Colombo Fort area dating back to the Dutch colonial era in Sri Lanka.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque

  Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque ( Red Mosque) is a historic mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is located on Second Cross Street in Pettah. The mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Colombo and a popular tourist site in the city.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Colombo Fort Clock Tower

  Colombo Fort Clock Tower is a clock tower and was a lighthouse in Colombo. The lighthouse is no longer operational, but the tower remains and functions as a clock tower. It is located at the junction of Chatham Street and Janadhipathi Mawatha (formerly Queens Road) in Colombo fort

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 4

  Specialized in retail and wholesale tea, spices and coffee"

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5
  Pettah

  In the heart of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is the madness of Pettah Market. It’s possibly the best place in Colombo to get initiated into the local Sri Lankan hustle and bustle, to ingest the sounds and smells, and to get a flavor of life in Colombo.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 6

  Galle Face is a 5 ha (12 acres) ocean-side urban park, which stretches for 500 m (1,600 ft) along the coast, in the heart of Colombo, the financial and business capital of Sri Lanka. The promenade was initially laid out in 1859 by Governor Sir Henry George Ward, although the original Galle Face Green extended over a much larger area than is seen today. The Galle Face Green was initially used for horse racing and as a golf course, but was also used for cricket, polo, football, tennis and rugby.

  35 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 7

  Especially the authentic Sri Lankan kothu

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8

  Port City Colombo, (Sinhala: කොළඹ වරාය නගරය, romanised: Koḷam̆ba Warāya Nagaraya) is a multi-services special economic zone located in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is currently under construction on reclaimed land adjacent to the Galle Face Green. The land reclamation work had been completed as of January 2019. In 2017, the cost was slated to be US$ 15 billion. Port City Colombo is a multi-billion-dollar FDI-funded Public Private Partnership (PPP).

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 9
  Temple Of Sri Kailawasanathan Swami Devasthanam Kovil

  Located in the heart of Colombo in Maradana, Sri Kaileswaram Kovil in the Captain’s Garden is considered the oldest Sivan Kovil in Colombo. Though the kovil is situated in the centre of Maradana, this is also isolated from all sides with a network of railway tracks and not as easily accessible as you would think. The entrance to Kovil Street is near a popular landmark, the second-hand bookshops of D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha and the road goes over the Fort railway lines and ends at the Kovil grounds.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 10
  Independence Square

  Independence Memorial Hall (also known as Independence Commemoration Hall) is a national monument in Sri Lanka built for commemoration of the independence of Sri Lanka from the British rule with the restoration of full governing responsibility to a Ceylonese-elected legislature on February 4, 1948. It is located in Independence Square (formerly Torrington Square) in the Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo. It also houses the Independence Memorial Museum. The monument was built at the location where the formal ceremony marking the start of self-rule, with the opening of the first parliament by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester occurred at a special podium February 4, 1948.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 11
  Colombo Lighthouse

  Colombo Lighthouse is a Lighthouse in Colombo in Sri Lanka and it is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. It is located at Galbokka Point south of the Port of Colombo on the waterfront along the marine drive, in Colombo fort.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 12
  Colombo Lotus Tower

  Lotus Tower (Sinhala: නෙළුම් කුළුණ; Tamil: தாமரைக் கோபுரம்), also referred to as Colombo Lotus Tower, is a 351.5 m (1,153 ft) tall tower, located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[1][2] It has been called a symbolic landmark of Sri Lanka.[3] As of 2019, the tower is the tallest self-supported structure in South Asia; the second tallest structure in South Asia after the guy-wire-supported INS Kattabomman in India; the 11th tallest tower in Asia and the 19th tallest tower in the world.[3][4] It was first proposed to be built in the suburb of Peliyagoda but later the Government of Sri Lanka decided to change the location.[5] The lotus-shaped tower is used for communication, observation and other leisure facilities. Construction is estimated to have cost US$113 million.[6]

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 13

  Rotti and Sambol

  15 minutes • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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