25,000 Steps on a Sacred Mountain Made me Emotional (Adam's Peak) 🇱🇰

so I think it's actually that peig right in front of us there I don't know where he gets the energy from stairs stairs stairs how am I going to survive this so why do most people do this is all right all right guys welcome to another video I am about 20 minutes outside ratnapura Sri Lanka and I'm on the way to Adams Peak or also called s and I think it might be one of those pigs I'm really not sure but it might be one of the highest there so that's where I'm going today I have about a 30 minute drive ahead my Tuk to is right there and um after that I think about 6 hours of hiking maybe 8 hours maybe 10 hours so uh about 2,000 M we will climb an elevation it will be steep it will be Steep and it will be tough and I'm not as fit anymore as before so it will be a challenge but I'm always up for a challenge uh so let's go and uh it was supposed to be 1 hour from rura but I think it will be more like 1 hour and a half because uh the roads are quite bad actually uh very bumpy so I'll have a quick stop here for some breakfast I saw there's a man there selling something but I'm really not sure what he's selling but it looks like some food so I can definitely use that let's see what is selling here uh I must get some breakfast here oh I think these are some more stuff probably oh yeah I'll have some of that good morning good morning hello hello hello uh what do you have here what is this uh rolls rolls um can I have uh two pieces please uh 200 two pieces 200 for two pieces okay okay uh so these are what roll RS and what is this uh water water H what is inside it's like a potato no no can I do one of each one one one roll and one water one rolls one water yes yeah I just want to try I don't know what um what it is so I need to try of course okay one uh one piece please yes okay uh 200 oh right okay thank thank you it's okay it's okay you can keep the change no no no yeah I think the rolls are a little bit cheaper uh the water but it's okay rolls and water rolls and water roll water okay I'll try this is water let's try what oh good good it's like a mix of vegetables like mashed vegetables or something I got a selfie selfie yeah yeah yeah here with the water so we have rolls here similar to samosas it looks a bit similar let's open it m the inside is different though looks like Samosa but it's a little bit different it's nice it's nice pretty heavy for the morning but I need that because I'm going hiking plenty plenty plenty okay okay I can do a tea here you can see it better it's like a mix of vegetables spices it is quite spicy I feel it but not too spicy like not crazy spicy manageable my colleague colleague yes I also have Tuk Tok there Tuk Tok yeah yeah yeah okay well thank you thank you for the team okay let's have some tea also Sanka tea Sanka tea okay cheers yes selfie self hot tea and sweet o good good yeah good thank you you're [Music] welcome what is your name sir ah tar tar oh I'm Tim Tim Tim yes nice to meet you nice to meet you have you been to Street uh yes yes how many hours to go up uh 5 hours oh okay I need to go then thank you uh here for the garbage okay thank you very much thank you thank you bye-bye okay had my breakfast now I'm ready to go to the Adams Peak well at least I think I'm ready maybe I'm not the guy said 5 hours some blogs said 8 hours I hear even 10 hours but probably that's going coming so uh let's see how long it will take me let's see let's see so I think it's actually that Peak right in front of us there so uh quite excited to climb that one really excited it's been a while that I climbed such a mountain so I'm really excited but it will be a tough one but I can handle it I think I think all right we made it and um it's quite touristy here actually it's more busy than expected uh I didn't see any foreigners yet mostly local people I think it's also a religious site here around here and also up there I think that's pretty much where we're going where the cloud is it's a bit hard to see the peak but uh that's where we're going so uh yeah let's get going I'm quite excited quite excited I hope I have everything I need I think I do I have about 3 liters of water and also some aloe vera juice snacks bread cheese everything I need I think I'm probably on the way I can find some stuff as well so yeah let's go Adam speak here I come if you would like to do this hike as well um don't worry you can buy everything you need right here there's full of shops here uh snacks drinks everything you need really so don't worry about getting anything in advance even clothes everything is here like has because it will be cold up there so hats jackets everything everything is here look at this it's like a whole Market here like a whole souvenir tourist Market hello hello how many hours to go up there how many hours walking walking yeah how many hours like three four 5 hours six six ah six hours okay thank you I don't know who answered but thank you yeah so most people do this hike for Sunrise which means they're on their way back now and I can see them like these people for example you can see they're all coming back hello hello painful in the knees yes oh yeah from going down yeah that's what I'm worried about as well when you go down it's very heavy on the knees um so yeah you can see how they walk I know the feeling I had it before if you go down very steep hills for a while after a while your knees really hurt so I'm preparing myself for that as well just trying to see if my sun block is uh not too visible because last time in Sri Lanka as well I was hiking all day and I had like a super burnt spot here so now I'm putting a lot of sunblock you know better come prepared how are you good what is your name what I'm Tim nice to meet you so it seems we have reached uh busy monkeys SP and I don't trust these little FS especially when you need to walk under and need them they might jump or do something else hello wow so many restaurants on the way restaurants little shops everything hello I brought so many stuff I need to use it otherwise I need to carry all that weight back down again as well don't want to do that we have our first open view of the valley look at this I also need that I hope that water is really cold now it's my turn feels nice ah that feels good really now some slips of water and it will be perfect Dam I can barely talk and we're only 2 km in not even one and a half no we're already dying how am I going to survive this it's all stairs up stairs stairs stairs I wonder how many stairs actually if you know how many stairs let me know in the comments probably a million that helps for the motivation probably so I just realized there are numbers on the stairs 2,100 I wonder if that means 2,100 M or 2,100 steps according to my watch it's 2,200 uh meters right now so I'm not quite sure I'll let you know in the future first I'll uh we'll try to survive 30 kilo you carry for 600 km yes where are you going to S yeah and then yes oh what what are you carrying is it rice yes yes rice wow not sure if I understood but he said 600 kilm with 30 kilos of rice on his head I'm not sure if I understood that correctly maybe he's on a pilgrimage and doing really long distance I don't know but respect to him respect I couldn't do it I really couldn't do it it's full of monkeys here this tree there that one is trying to jump on the cable look look look it's going to yeah yeah yeah on the cable sneaking up on people that one is chilling on the pole oh look at them going crazy look on this one it's a blonde one looks a bit like Tintin look at his hair well not pretty tinting I don't know what kind of style that is funny though look at this don't steal my camera I'm going to jump or what look at them going look at them going going to jump in the tree or doing something else dirty business I don't know I don't trust them suffering only 3 km in 4 kilm probably 5 km to [Applause] go tough are come here come here I'm coming I'm coming I am s l boy and the very beautiful boy come here come here I don't know you have a lot of energy so much energy a lot of energy I don't have I don't have I don't know where he gets the energy from hi dear how are you hello hello how are you where from Belgium Belgium yes you I'm from Sri Lanka oh nice to meet you my hands are a bit sweaty okay so so much sweating all the same yeah you don't sweat I don't for me it's dripping you're a YouTuber yeah yeah yeah make videos still far how many minutes or hours uh maybe 4 hours going still really oh no four hours no no no 4 hours you can go you can go 1 hour one and half hour maybe yeah I go slow I go slow okay see you byebye 4 hours I hope that's not true we've been on the way already for 2 hours and a half if it's still 4 hours damn I'm not I'm dead already really well it's a good exercise that's for sure and that's what I need so guys I was thinking to do this the healthy way without any sodas or Coca-Cola but I'm craving I'm craving I need some sugar so um I'll try to figure out hello sir uh do you have Coca-Cola here get cooca Coca-Cola oh yeah you have a cool cool please yes yeah I really need my sugar it's too tough you know I need a sugar rush to keep going no small one small you don't have small no only oh yeah yeah I want a sugar rush but not a 1 and A2 liter Coca-Cola Sugar Rush okay thank you thank you okay I really need this I really need this a sugar rush damn I'm so low on energy can't believe it I can't believe it look what we have here it's like a leftover of some kind of building here maybe a temple or something it's just ruins right now but it used to be something quite big building even there's some big animal there you hear it walking what is it lion elephant no I don't know I don't see any tree trees moving oh no that kid with his kok has arrived I need to keep moving I need to keep moving I'm sure that animal is gone now after hearing that some local people just offered me this not sure what the name is but it's with coconut sugar super delicious another Sugar Rush is incoming so a little bit of background information about this track to Adams Peak or stre pa um it's 16 kilm but they're actually two ways to approach the peak and I'm taking the most difficult route apparently um I just did this because it was closer for me uh I was in ratnapura and then it's only like 1 hour driving 1 hour and a half but if you're staying on the other side of the mountain you can take the easier route which I'm sure is still hard but easier than this one apparently that's what I read I'm not sure about uh 16 km up and down so as you can see the trail consists mostly of stairs and uh a lot of people are suffering uh because it's heavy on the knees so I'm preparing my myself because I might have the same problem on the way back let's see look at this view this is the reason that I came to Sri Lanka well this this and the people and the food but the nature is stunning here wow very impressive hello hello oh yeah they're throwing coins in it they throw a coin in the mou for what is it for good luck for good luck oh almost oh yeah I think this is where it really starts so we have about uh uh three Fort done 75% of the hike up is done but this is where the steepest part starts um and it's very steep right here look a beautiful Buddha here there as well gorgeous look at this how beautifully decorated wow as you can see this is where the hardest part starts the steepest part I think we have about 1 kilm to do but very very steep so uh almost there almost there 2 and a half hour up yeah you go still yeah no really really no no no how much really really she's laughing it's not true uh we go down 10 plus ready now you see the what time I don't know come 1: oh yeah almost 2 may now we uh go uh uh go down uh and 2 hour oh really yeah okay we'll see no you can go what 2 hours more yeah 2 hours more oh because I don't like that yeah yeah you can go you can go you can do it yes correct yeah I will do it I will do it thank you good luck good luck I don't think so I mean unless you go really slow but I know it's the steepest part but two hours more no come on 1 hour maybe Max 45 minutes so there's one thing that confuses me a little bit in Sri Lanka and that is the fact that everybody drives on the left side but when you walk they all walk on the right side why is that it doesn't make sense like if you drive on the left side you walk on the left side as well like for example here like everybody is walking on this side so why do most people do this is for uh pil pilgrimage this is our sacred Place sacred place for Buddhist buas food part oh this one yes oh and it's like um once in a lifetime you need to come here yes okay no I am this a 16th 16th time yeah every year every year okay continuously my uh this 14th 14th oh because you can see everybody is doing it like kids old people uh young people everybody yeah yeah it's like for Buddhists it's very sacred Place yeah yeah this is the one one place is the buddas one foot ah there's a yeah other one is you know the Saudi Arabia Mecca yes yes yes before the thisas there there are a Buddhism Mecca in Saudi Arabia yes oh really there's a footstep also there yeah but uh other people can't see them that's the yeah problem is so can you see the print or no there is nobody can enter you are not a Muslim ah yes this area also oh yes yes yes but here only Buddhist can enter no nobody anybody anybody anybody oh they need to wear long pants no yeah but I have The Zipper pants so I can do it and also cover the sleeves this yeah I have also the same yeah oh so everybody's coming here once in a life even more maybe more more yeah because I see old people here maybe 70 80 years old yeah they're coming here that's uh really good yeah yeah yeah there yeah they believe yeah because of their belief they not physically fit but yeah their strength of the belief yes yeah yeah yeah yeah but they take maybe 10 hours or something but they will still do it yes no matter what they will go yeah yeah it's very brave very brave yeah if you see the leather there yeah that's a hard part I think no no this we need to climb there not not this oh okay oh I thought the letter is the oh for working for working oh I was already thinking I have to climb that oh luckily luckily there is okay okay okay what is your name ABI AB Tim Tim nice to meet you nice thank you yeah oh I was really thinking that we had to climb that little ladder there no no that would be crazy same same letter oh stairs everywhere okay okay okay okay then I'm happy then I'm happy okay yeah I'll take my time I'll see you there oh so this is a very sacred place that's why people of all ages go there like you see people really struggling like I can imagine they're take they're probably left maybe at 5: in the morning and they come back at midnight or whatever but they will still do it just because of their belief that's um very brave of them very brave like I do this because of yeah for the views mostly even though it's a bit foggy but mostly I do this for the views also I do this for exercise to lose some weight because uhini the jeice bar lady from neomo told me that I'm fat so I need to lose weight imagine walking the stairs in your house which is what maybe 20 stairs imagine walking those stairs for 6 hours in a row like up steep you know not like this like this imagine that that's how this is so I really thought that we would have to climb that that would have been crazy actually from far away I thought like yeah maybe because I read that you have to like climb the rocks with chains and stuff but I don't think uh that was correct no it's all stairs so it's you're safe don't worry h Hello what are you selling here what what is this uh let me see maybe I'll do one uh can I have one of this please uh one piece yes wow so many good stuff here so many good stuff look at this chocon nut that looks really good o choco coated peanuts huh oh they put something in between so they cut it oh it's with spicy sauce spicy okay okay I have no idea what it is oh that looks very spicy what is the name of this Sri Lanka name name okay how much it's uh 70 okay wait I'll pay first 20 70 20 20 20 20 H tea oh yes yes one tea also okay how much uh for everything sugar uh which sugar please yes yes yes yes yes I want sugar I need that how how much is it oh yeah 130 okay it's okay for you okay okay no no change no change okay [Music] okay okay yeah let me try this so we have some kind of a shunkan I don't know it's kind of it's just bread I think with um chili sauce on top let me show you what it is in it's like a Sall almost like o smells really spicy spicy yeah oh very good very good yeah yeah oh yeah it's definitely spicy I think it's the same sauce from the rotti and the bread is a little bit sweet tiny bit crunchy but freshly made it feels fresh with the chili sauce wow well deserved okay thank you thank you as well oh wow so good chili SAU is with peppers as well I think it's not just chili a little bit like pizza almost like a spicy pizza sauce so good okay let's give that tea taste test very hot and um my mouth is on fire from the spicy sauce plus the hot tea but because it's pretty cold here the tea cools down pretty quickly good SRI Te video video they're making fun of my vlogging here okay okay thank you very much thank you see you next time well I don't know if I will come back but maybe okay bye-bye so we made it we made it have to take off the shoes because this is a temple photos and videos not allowed here h maybe I can go somewhere there to have a nice view over the valley that would be nice but yeah we made [Music] [Music] it [Music] yeah because this is a very sacred place um cameras are not allowed well photo and video is is not allowed and um yeah I respect it of course and uh I went up there had to take my shoes off long pants and then you can uh see the sacred food people leave their uh donations and pray um and then also around the temple they're praying I'll try to put a picture of the temple on the screen because I don't have one but um yeah it's impressive imagine how they built this also like on top of this tall mountain must not have been easy get all this material here must have been really really hard also building all these stairs must have been really really difficult so respected that and um if you want to know how long it took um I did it in about 5 hours a little bit over 5 hours to get here but I'm also happy that I did it because um it was a struggle it was really a struggle it makes me emotional almost yeah it was really a struggle but now back down too bad we didn't get the clear views today I guess if you come really early morning you will have a clear view here which will make it even more impressive now it's just foggy foggy foggy but oh and I know now why everybody goes down on the right side it's because there's a sign up there that says go down on right side so they're just following the rules I was a bit confused because everybody drives on the left side but they walk on the right side didn't make sense to me but yeah is there if there's a sign it makees sense so I'll go on the right side what happened there's a big ass monkey next to me there he is can you spot him he's looking he's looking angry at me who I was so surprised he's looking because I know like when you look in their eyes it's uh it's dangerous and it's a bigger monkey than than I'm used to mostly it's like these little monkeys but this one is a big one looks like an old one and he was looking kind of angry at me so I was like I'll just film a little bit but I can't look in his eyes and then he jumps like towards me but he jumps back again or something I don't know I need to rewatch The footage I thought he would jump at me okay hi Hi how are you good how are you thank you good I you still uh you still want to do it when will you you you come back tonight also or you you sleep there tomorrow oh it's better better okay good luck you did you go top yeah yeah yeah yeah okay yeah so tomorrow you're coming back the same way or the other way uh same okay good okay enjoy good luck good luck so um some random local here gave me this and it's called agula or something I tried already one and it's a little bit um peppery I'm really not sure what the ingredients are sugar for sure pepper as well you had like a whole bag of it probably 10 kilos I think you can even see the pepper in it the black pieces I'm really not sure what it is but it's pretty good all right guys I made it back finally it's uh 7:40 now it took me almost 10 hours actually 9 hours and a half so uh the 10 hours was really not exaggerated and I must say I'm really dead like really dead this is all sweat it's a little bit raining as well the last like half hour started raining but uh I'm finished done but no regrets though no regrets it was really nice nice and everybody on the way back was saying hi sharing their food with me like it was really nice but it's pretty dark so it was a bit tricky there is lights along the path but still a bit tricky I fell almost twice but uh I managed to save myself uh but now it's time to go back to ratnapura uh 1 hour and a half in the tukk on a bumpy road in the dark little bit raining not looking forward but I'll just stick it slow but uh you already know if you're still watching you're a legend legend

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Length: 34min 30sec (2070 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2024