Pettah Floating Market

The Pettah Floating Markets are located on Bastian Mawatha in Pettah, a neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and consist of 92 trade stalls, with a number of the stalls established on boats on Beira Lake.

Type: Tourist attraction
Description: market in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Address: Colombo

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort railway station and Beira Lake.

Fort railway station

Railway station

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

Fort railway station is a major rail hub in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, with many inter-city and commuter trains entering each day. Fort railway station is situated 610 metres west of Pettah Floating Market.

Beira Lake

Lake

Photo: Mayakaru, CC BY 3.0.

Beira Lake is a man-made lake in the centre of the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka. The lake is surrounded by many large businesses in the city. It initially occupied approximately 1.65 km2 of land 100 years ago but has since been reduced to 0.65 km2 today due to various reasons.

Galle Face Green

Park

Photo: Mayakaru, CC BY 3.0.

Galle Face Green is a 5 ha ocean-side urban park, which stretches for 500 m along the coast, in the heart of Colombo, the financial and business capital of Sri Lanka. Galle Face Green is situated 1½ km southwest of Pettah Floating Market.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colombo and Slave Island.

Colombo

Photo: dronepicr, CC BY 2.0.

Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, and still perceived by many as the capital though the suburb of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is now the official capital.

Slave Island

Village

Photo: Mayakaru, CC BY 3.0.

Slave Island, officially known as Kompagngna Veediya, also known as Kampong Kertel and Kompanna Veediya and formerly known as Javanam Quarters during Dutch rule, is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka, located directly south of the Fort.

Kotahena

Suburb

Kotahena is a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is known as Colombo 13.

Pettah Floating Market

Categories: market, tourism, and pier
Location: Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude

6.93273° or 6° 55′ 58″ north

Longitude

79.85553° or 79° 51′ 20″ east

Open location code

6JRXWVM4+36

OpenStreetMap ID

way 303907118

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=pier

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q20987458

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