Location of Galle Face Green

Galle Face Green is located in Colombo, and is a prominent land mark, it is in the CBD area of the city and is the cities main sea front. There is little beach area here, and the sea is generally rather rough, that said you do see a lot of people attempting to paddle about.

There is a new pier built that reaches out into the sea, and it is a great place to watch the sun set. Galle Face comes to life at around sun set with thousands of locals descending upon the grounds with children, and it is locally also a popular destination for local couples. They all gather here to watch the sun set, eat the foods that skiz talks about in his video (see further below) and also play.

As I browsed through YouTube in search of great videos to Post on the Blog, I came across this one, which gives the viewer a good glimpse of the Sun Set and the atmosphere at the Galle Face Hotel at this time.


Here are some pictures that I took in Jan 2012 at Galle Face, These were taken on the 1st of Jan 2012.








The video below gives you a view of what Galle Face looks like during the day.



As kids we used to always go down to Galle Face to fly kites, eat ice cream and watch the sun go down. Nowadays I quite enjoy having high tea at the Galle Face Hotel on the veranda.




Another great video from Skiz Fernando, I will be posting more of his videos on the blog, and any other interesting things I find on Sri Lanka.

To be honest I have never been brave enough to try street food in Sri Lanka, so I have no comments of my own on this, so I hope Skiz gives you a good idea.


Below are some picture from Galle Face that I took this year








For those of you who are interested in the hotel, here is a great video by Trip Advisor on it.


For information on the high tea etc please see the hotels web site here - http://www.gallefacehotel.com/html_classic/dining_verendah.htm

The second day in Sri Lanka was very uneventful, mainly consisted of meetings for work related issues.


Day three too started off with many meetings, however, the latter part of the day consisted of taking pics of Colombo, Going to watch the 3 musketeers at the new 3D Cinema at majestic city.


Managed to drive around to city of Colombo at night and record most of it. The first highlight of the day here  where a SUV driver decided to use the pavement to get past a bus that was blocking his way, interestingly it seems that such actions were endorsed. As you can see the poles on the pavement to stop vehicles using it have been laid down. only in that spot. So I decided to follow suite!


Following this we headed towards Colombo, my whole journey can be seen on this video here

The highlight was the newly renovated Independence Square and Beira Lake pictures I took of these places can be seen here 


Colombo is really changing, and much for the better, the city is slowly coming to light a good example is how lit up the shops on the galle road were my drive from Majestic City to Beira Lake  can be seen here , and the intense construction work and modifications can be seen in every corner. In fact, only 11 months ago when I was last here, things were much different.


The development of the Galle Road stretch between Bambalapitiya and Kollupitiya was rather well done, although I must say the drivers were rather scary!


There are still some remanence of the old war time Colombo, but very little check points or army posts remain, infact I had to look hard to see any of these. Almost all places that were locked off as high security zones in the city are now open to the public.