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Colombo, Sri Lanka
6 places worth your time in Colombo, with what each is actually like and when to go.
A seafront promenade laid out in 1859, now the city's evening gathering place — kites, food carts and the sunset.
A working temple and an eccentric museum, mixing Sri Lankan, Thai, Indian and Chinese architecture and a great deal of donated bric-a-brac.
A dense grid of trading streets, each historically dedicated to one commodity, beside the Red Mosque's candy-striped brickwork.
Modelled on a Kandyan royal audience hall, built to mark the end of British rule in 1948.
The country's largest, with the Kandyan regalia and a strong collection of Buddhist sculpture.
A 17th-century colonial building now full of restaurants and shops, and the most pleasant part of the Fort district.
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