Colombo - Post Report Question and Answers
Is this a "shopping post"? Are there interesting handicrafts, artwork, antiques, or other items that people typically buy there?
There are plenty of souvenir shops in Colombo but they all start to look alike after a while. Sri Lankan masks are one of the more popular items and can be found everywhere along with stone or wood elephants of every shape, color, and size. - Jul 2025
This is not a shopping post. Wooden antique furniture is relatively available and affordable. - Mar 2021
Lotions, spices, teas, textiles, and gemstones are the main things people buy here. - Sep 2020
Compared to many other places I've lived, Sri Lanka is not a shopping post. You'll spend lots of money on travel, but probably not on local products. - Apr 2020
Beautiful handicrafts. Teak is everywhere, pottery, masks, art... - Sep 2017
Lots of great art, ceramics, woodwork, tea and antiques! - Mar 2017
GEMS (specifically the blue sapphire that Sri Lanka is known for), cane furniture, antique furniture, local paintings, sarees, posh resorts in Sri Lanka, and travel to Maldives. - Sep 2013
Clothes, clothes, and more clothes. Also: furniture, pictures, DVD's, and CD's. - Sep 2012
The local masks are amazing, lots of Indian-style brassware, there are great shops for very colorful fabrics - everything from pillows to silk sari material. - Dec 2011
Barefoot stuffed animals and hand painted porcelain, wood and stone work. - Feb 2010
Clothes at Barefoot, not much else. - Sep 2008
Interior design items. - Feb 2008
