Colombo's Galle Face

Day 105 - After the zoo yesterday, we took lunch at a restaurant along the road formerly known as Marine Drive. As only three of the five in our group had visited the edge of the new Colombo Port City lands, we drove to Galle Face and stopped. 

As mentioned before, this is a large land reclamation project that will completely change the capital's downtown. Only time will tell if it turns out to be another Chinese-built, white-elephant, vanity project or not. It's a bit hard to judge with an economy so mismanaged and in debt that electricity will be rationed for possibly eight hours tomorrow! 

Still, the Galle Face Road looks nice from new land which until recently was in the middle of the harbour!