For the longest time, Colombo was swerved by holidaymakers flying into Sri Lanka for their two-week jaunt. Cast off as a waste of time, a frenetic city, with not much to see or do, a place only to be visited for a visa extension or to remedy a missing passport.
Even today, I still meet travellers who have opted for nearby tourist-filled Negombo over the enigmatic capital and scroll through Reel after Reel from content creators happily sharing why it’s better to swerve the capital, even though they’ve never visited.
