Cluster 26 of 28. Ideas 476 to 485
The cities, one idea each
The mechanism
Every city has one thing it could be known for, and most are not yet known for it.
The 10 ideas
- 476Colombo: a night market on the Galle Face Green run to a standard, every weekend
- 477Colombo: the Pettah as a managed market street, cleaned, lit and sold to visitors as the best bazaar in Asia
- 478Kandy: the lake promenade with cafés and evening performances, not only the temple
- 479Galle: the coral coast, the gardens of Hikkaduwa and the reef under Rumassala, where a visitor or a Sri Lankan abroad becomes a coral mum or a coral dad, with a coral in their name, the way people name a star, and a photograph of it every year as it grows
- 480Jaffna: the food the rest of the island does not have, odiyal kool, the crab curry and everything the palmyrah gives, cooked where it comes from and shown off to the world as a cuisine of its own
- 481Trincomalee: the summer beach town, sold for the months when the south-west coast has its monsoon
- 482Negombo: the first and last evening of every visit, 15 minutes from the airport, with the fleet coming in to the beach, the churches and the lagoon sold as the island's welcome and its send-off
- 483Nuwara Eliya: a cool-climate wellness and tea town, not a faded hill station
- 484Anuradhapura: a pilgrim city with lodging, food and interpretation to match its sacredness
- 485Hambantota: an industrial estate for the processors in this list