Colombo City Guide

Any visit to an exotic location is incomplete if shopping is not in the agenda and this applies to your Colombo tour as well. But it is very difficult to get the best bargain when there are so many shopping destinations around offering an exhaustive range of items right from camera to apparels and accessories.

However, there are some departmental stores in Colombo that offer you both branded products and handcrafted items.

Laksala

At 60 York Street is Laksala, Sri Lanka's emporium for handicrafts. Drop at the complex anytime between 9am and 5pm in the weekdays and pick up objects made fr...Read More

Colombo is the commercial as well as administrative center of Sri Lanka. Besides it is the considered the central business district of this island, and naturally a lot national and international banks and financial institutions have opened up their branches here. So, visitors bound to Colombo this season need not worry about currency exchange or transfer while shopping, sightseeing or simply roving around.

Tourists coming from any country can easily get their money transferred. Colombo has got the branches of several European banks opened here such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank AG Colombo, Commonwealth Bank Colombo, HongKong Shanghai Banking Corporation Colombo etc.

Colombo has branches of some banks headquartered in the Middle East too and some of the...Read More