Sri Lanka - Day 13 Colombo

​​Everyone told us Colombo wasn’t really worth visiting, even Lonely Planet. Our flight was at 5 a.m., so we had planned our last day in Colombo. For some reason, initially we thought it would be a good idea to just roam around the city without having a hotel room and then go to the airport at night. Thankfully we realised that that was not particularly intelligent. While in Mirissa, we managed to book at room at a guesthouse, which was probably the best thing we had done for this trip. We left Bentota early in the morning and caught a bus off the side of the road to Colombo. It was the only air-conditioned bus ride we had on this trip. It wasn’t one of those public buses, but a mini-bus instead, kind of like what they have in Cairo. Check-in wasn’t until 2, so we dropped our luggage and heading off to explore the city.

​We walked around for hours, trying to cover as many of the sites as possible in our limited timeframe. I must say, Colombo agreed with us. We don’t really understand why it’s so underrated. Perhaps it’s because most people go to Sri Lanka for the beaches, but we are city folk, and spoiled rotten when it comes to beaches. When we have pristine waters back home, why travel for something slightly less.

We visited the clock tower, a Buddhist dagoba, and a local market, followed by a lunch at the one of Colombo’s biggest tourist attractions: The Ministry of Crab. Hussein ordered the smallest crab (a little less than 1kg) since I wasn’t really going to be joining this meal. He said it’s the best crab he’s ever had, unlike any he’s ever eaten.

After lunch we took a walk on the seaside and watched the locals fly their kites. After hours of walking, my feet couldn’t take it anymore and we hopped onto a toktok to our guesthouse. Our holiday was finally over (unfortunately).

We grabbed some dinner and went to sleep. Cairo, here we come.