Malabe
Malabe is a former town, now a suburb of Kaduwela in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka.
Malabe is a former town, now a suburb of Kaduwela in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka. It is situated on the New Kandy Road about 10 km (6.2 mi) away from the centre of the commercial capital Colombo. This suburb is a crucial economic centre in Colombo.
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Worth seeing in and around Malabe
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology is a non-profit private university located in Malabe, Colombo, and Pallekele, in Sri Lanka. It specialises in various academic and professional fields, such as computer science, information technology, and business management.
2.3 km · University in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 02Diyasaru Park
Diyasaru Park, is 60 acre urban wetland park located in Thalawathugoda area of Sri Jayawardanapura, Colombo District, Sri Lanka. It comprises a range of wetland habitats such as marshes, flooded woodlands, lakes, and ponds.
3.7 km · zoo in Colombo, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
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Getting to Malabe
- Airports
- Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 12 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 32 km
- Jaffna → Malabe307 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · Rs16,780–25,890
- Thiruvananthapuram → Malabe375 km · quickest by air, 5h 56m · ₹10,510–16,150
- Tiruchirappalli → Malabe456 km · quickest by air, 6h 16m · ₹11,260–17,300
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Malabe
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Malabe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt can also handle international charter flights.
- Get inYou can also take a tri-shaw aka tuk-tuk from the bus depot (get there by free airport shuttle bus), it takes a bit more than an hour and is Rs 2,500 (2024) from airport to Galle Road.
- Get inTake either the free airport shuttle to the bus station and then follow the road (Canada Friendship) to the Katunayaka South station (nearly 2 km, if you don't have luggage) otherwise just to take a tuk tuk right from the airport to the train station.
- Get aroundGetting around by Tri-shaw (Three wheeler, tuk-tuk) is most convenient.
- Get aroundBut it's best to hail a meter taxi (identified by the words "Meter Taxi" on its windshield) that is traveling in the direction that you need to go instead of hiring one from the parking area or the tuk-tuk stand.
From Wikivoyage: Colombo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Malabe
Malabe is 12 km from Colombo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Thalawathugodasuburb in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka3.7 km
- Hokandarasuburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka2.9 km
- Koswattesuburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka3.2 km