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The Colombo-Matara Express Highway(Southern Expressway) is a highway currently under construction in Sri Lanka. The 126 km (78.2 mile) long highway will link the Sri Lankan Capital Colombo with Matara.
Shot at Galle Face Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Assortment of statues, shrines, a steam engine and a motorcycle, directly across the street from the Gangaramaya Buddhist Temple.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by Plâté Ltd. of Ceylon.
The photograph in fact bears an image of the The Sammangodu Sri Kathirvelayutha Swamy Kovil Temple dedicated to the Hindu god Lord Muragan.
When the Indian Hindu community first arrived in Sri Lanka in the last half of the 19th Century, they purchased this temple at 1st Cross Street in Pettah, a district of Colombo.
Most of the early immigrants were Tamil, and this prominent temple was one of a handful that served a community that today amounts in size to nearly 15% of the population.
Plâté
Husband and wife Photographers A.W.A. and Clara Plâté set up a photo studio in Colombo’s Bristol Hotel in 1890. From there they produced their photographs, and had many of these images printed in souvenir books and as postcards.
After opening branches in Nuwara, Eliya, and Kandy, they became the leading supplier of postcards in Ceylon. They produced high quality view-cards of local scenes as monochrome collotypes and tricolour prints.
They also published a series of artist-signed cards under the name Plâté’s “Art” Post Card. More than just scenery, these cards tried to project the exotic flavour of the landscape and the activities within it.
Colombo
Colombo is the commercial capital and largest city in Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, the Colombo metropolitan area has a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 in the city itself.
History of Colombo
Due to its large harbour and its strategic position along the East-West sea trade routes, Colombo was known to ancient traders 2,000 years ago. It was made the capital of the island when Ceylon was ceded to the British Empire in 1815, and its status as capital was retained when the nation became independent in 1948.
Colombo Today
Colombo is the financial centre of the island and a popular tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island. Colombo is a busy and vibrant place, with a mixture of modern life and colonial buildings and ruins.
The city is home to the majority of Sri Lanka's corporate offices, restaurants and entertainment venues.
Famous landmarks in Colombo include Galle Face Green, Viharamahadevi Park, Beira Lake, Colombo Racecourse, the Planetarium, the University of Colombo, Mount Lavinia beach, Dehiwala Zoological Garden, the Nelum Pokuna Theatre, the Colombo Lotus Tower as well as the National Museum.
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
In May 2012, a three-day training program was organized to train Sri Lankan professional on Probabilistic Risk Assessment using CAPRA.
Photo: World Bank.