travel42 Port Guide: Galle

travel42 Professional Cruise Port of Call Review

This city on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, 65 mi/105 km south of Colombo, is a must-see for colonial-architecture buffs. Declared an UNESCO World Heritage site, its main attraction is a still-inhabited 17th-century Dutch fort, one of the most extensive monuments left by European colonialists. Although many of the structures that made up the fort are in serious decay, the 65-ft-/20-m-thick outer walls are completely intact. If you walk along the top of the walls at dusk, you'll see dozens of c...