you love England yeah I like my pray keeping my eyes peeled oh elephant so far oh there should we go faster guys she's so quick it's $3,000 that's $100 I just arrived at the cinnamon Lodge Harbor this is a festar luxury resort in the middle of nowhere near sigara and I am excited to check in let's check it now good morning sub Des how are you I'm very good very good nice to meet you thank you so much okay this is the walk to my Lodge I thought I was staying in like rooms but I'm actually in a lodge I got my own little house just that's my house there and uh they've been told I've been told to be careful of monkeys of elephants so we are already in nature here this is like the true Sri Lanka and I love it like uh weather's come out today can't complain plane let's go and check out the room this is my little Lodge let's check out the room here at the cinnamon Lodge we have a nice spacious King room we got work area over here and just like chill I've just chucked my stuff down got like really nice Colonial design I love these pillars and of course huge bed that's like elevated up we got like a work area over here we got the TV another work area over here like really nice and like obviously got the got the blinds closed cuz it's kind of hot right now but you get a lot of light in here and then of course we've got a nice big bathroom shower bath and of course the old toilet thing I love about these places is they give you loads of different things like shower caps we got conditioners shampoos and then even like toothbrush so you got everything you need in the hotel room just to chill out but when you look outside the window you've got trees everywhere that have been planted and just nature all around you there's like monkeys running around everywhere and uh yeah it's just like so nice to be in nature beautiful weather here in Sri Lanka and uh yeah so happy to be here okay now me and my man adula are going on a little hike up to rala Monastery this is the ruins here we got like a 1hour hike up to the fifth century Buddhist Monastery where obviously Buddhism was practic on the sacred Mountain which is now protected and is a nature reserve and apparently you can find elephants leopards snakes so we to be on the lookout oh leopard there I'm joking looks like our path has been stopped by a group of wild monkeys and they aren't the friendly type what's that it's a you know the small very similar to your country cricket cricket yes oh okay yeah so these guys are just standing right there this is also the resting area for the monks they used to rest here but those guys are in our way is this a bad time to say that I don't like monkeys are they they seem to be no should you not look at them in the eyes yeah they are very scared I not like the hotel monkey oh really wow couple of them are a little bit aggressive is it male or female maybe oh he's following us maybe young male a young male he's confident uhoh oh beautiful very lucky what's that big oh wow I'm more worried about this guy oh my God they're surrounding us can we go forward yeah he's right next to us do you think I I could beat one monkey in a fight yeah how many monkeys do you think I could take five five yes six would be too much yeah I think uppercut kick one I think I got it oh no way yes so this is little potty trainer for the little baby monks they put their feet there and then that's how they pee but they there's nowh to poo they just just peeing here okay so it's a little public toilet here amazing so we've been walking around for like an hour just going up and every level you get to has a different kind of building you've got here we've got like a meeting point we've gone through hospitals school like uh meditation schools and prayer areas and it's just like literally in the middle of the forest there's monkeys everywhere and uh this is as far as we can go up yes cuz basically it's now protected it's a sacred area you have to have a permit yes okay so we're not going to go any further up maybe off camera we will no I'm joking we won't but it's beautiful and look at this the sun is out we're in nature this is what I love best what's your favorite thing about Sri Lanka uh s hon PLS this is my one of my favorite place Thea okay I amazing because of the the nature what's your like your favorite thing about Sri Lanka in general is the nature yeah nature okay what what uh what is one thing you don't like about Sri Lanka the politics yeah definitely politics I think that's everyone agrees with that Buddhism is a major religion around the world and is the biggest religion here in Sri Lanka around 70% of the population is Buddhist obviously this being a Buddhist Monastery want to talk about it um Buddhism actually came from India the Buddha was born in India and then 2,500 years ago spread his teachings around the world and now it's a huge religion basically practices meditation and the alleviation of suffering and it's a it's a lovely religion it's very peaceful religion and very simple religion and the people the monks who used to live here they lived a very simple life in nature I mean that's what life is about really and um yeah you can imagine this being a really beautiful place unfortunately it has been destroyed through nature and few a few other things but yeah it's an amazing place and uh it's nice to just walk through nature and listen to Nature they meditate around here around here yes okay nice how long would they meditate for like hours like hours yeah yeah yeah wow and they the the monks they they have no we call we call actually walking uh meditate oh really just walking meditate like this what if they fall in is this water here uh no no watering and the the monks they they never have a partner they never have never have sex never have a partner wow they are that I I got to give them respect for that I don't don't know I I I can't do they walk for hours meditating oh that's true because I I meditate but I always do it sitting but when I go for walks and stuff I kind of feel like I'm it's more I don't know my thoughts flow better yes and so maybe I've never tried to meditate whilst walking but they obviously they don't close their eyes do they yeah they they they closed eyes they close their eyes un walking on a on a Ledge yeah on ledge oh my God should I try it okay I'm going to try it all right this is is how I die I'm going to take my glasses off so you can see I'm closing my eyes yeah oh my God this is so scary yeah of course no I hate this oh my God and they walk all the way down there with closed eyes yes wow okay respect I bet some of them did fall off he loves the butterflies there's over 100 species of butterflies here you can see more than 100 wow I have a question um who do you think would win in a fight me or a baby elephant like their side yes who would win in a fight me or the baby elephant baby elephant really are they strong yeah very strong okay okay I know I just popped into my head sty they're very hardworking men they're cleaning the pathway for us sty Machan you seen another butterfly no it's beautiful butterf oh wow look at these butterflies oh yeah common moment the black and white one the small white one we call this aloss okay where did you learn your English your English is very good thank you still I'm learning now you learning in in school or after school after school so like people how old are you you're 30 now I am 40 oh you're 40 wow you look very good for your age thank so um in when you were younger like they did not speak uh they did not teach English no me in in your school yeah in the school we have to learn but that day we are very shy okay because now like in Sri Lanka and many other countries the all the kids they are the best at English and the and the grandparents and the parents are not very good at English it's going to be super interesting in the future when all the kids I feel like all the kids from India Sri Lanka Nepal they're getting a good education and so the future is looking good you know in the next 100 years for all these countries if they get good jobs you know it's going to be interesting to see and especially we have very sh and very scared English that day oh really yeah of course because the because the British colonizers yeah of course you're scared of us yeah I'm joking wow look at this tree beautiful these are the roots yeah the roots growing okay did you know I used to think that um or like it was a common misconception that trees fight for the sun light you know that's why they grow kind of outward sometimes but actually apparently the they work together for the light so it's like a it's it's a good lesson to learn that uh you should help others around you instead of trying to steal the sunlight yeah yes there we go I'm just spitting absolute knowledge bombs this is what the monkeys used to run around so I'm going to try and see I'm going to be tazan oh wow it takes my weight wow unfortunately I can't swing from tree to tree maybe if I heat practicing sorry you making uh repairing yeah repairing oh nice wow there was just like 20 of them just staring at me keep up the good work tell them they're hard hard working what are you selling oh oh wow we got nuts what's this honey honey bee honey oh bee honey water and then some snacks over here oh this is the berries wow oh the monkeys the monkey stealing stuff did he get it this is the monkeyy surrounding the monkeys are annoying you want me to hit them oh stay away I'll stay I'll keep the monkeys away I'm watching you so they've given me a catapult but they have no ammunition so I just have to fake it and the monkeys will run away [Music] oh my god it works but now I think I'm making enemies you have coffee uh belly M belly M herbal tea oh I'll take one one please how much is it 100 rupees 100 rupees and one water also uh 120 rupees okay sure oh what's this what's that Sugar oh sugar sugar oh okay sure just uh I'll just try one what's your name she's shy my name is she speaks English no oh just you your English is very good okay let's try a little bit oh very high it's good interesting tea I've never had this before it's like kind of like a pepper taste it's like a you want one no thanks ah this is a medicinal uh this is the flour we boil the flour in here yeah in here ah so it's healthy yeah healthy this is medicinal room oh nice yeah it tastes really nice not like a normal tea before introduce the tea lots of s lanan people they drink medicinal plants as a tea as tea oh really okay how is the life in Sri Lanka good Hyundai you have family you have hondai godak hondai hondai good good you have you have husband uh accident for house oh really that's why you are working oh oh okay so you're wow so she's just working uh selling these because of I'm guessing something to do with her husband died or was hurt and your this is your daughter yes she goes to school uh free school free school oh good what time do you finish here what time working till uh 5 4 hours 4 hours okay there's not many tourists here how many how many tourists do you sell how much do you sell in one day some days they can uh make thousand, 200 rupees per day yeah some days not much not much yesterday she said no sales yesterday oh no sales oh my God and on the the pilgrims you know depend on the visitors yeah yeah and uh why is she like do she she said something about her husband like she very sad his husband accident four months ago he can't work he can't work so she's the main owner yeah okay that's for you because you're working hard thank you sir uh I don't even know how much that is welcome cuz you working hard also to share because you are both working very hard and uh yeah you here all day thank you sis okay thank you nice to meet you thank you so much really appreciate donation very sad that she's like uh she had no customers yesterday and her husband like is injured so he cannot work and like it's just like yeah just horrible to see literally like this is there's no there's no customers l no one here they got monkeys the monkeys are the only customers okay we are going for breakfast yesti Maan sum okay thank you so much oh we got the uh coffee please with milk or um no milk bye thank you y this is my first time seeing this uh view over here of this insane oh my God okay we've got the breakfast of Dreams super good morning nice to meet you meet you oh we've already met yeah yeah yeah how you doing okay wow look at this breakfast I've already spotted the shanken corner over here we' got Hoppers we're going to definitely try some Hoppers oh wow look at that hoppers for breakfast yes okay we're going to do the shanken style and then we got salad over here we it's like a huge island eggs of course oh my God even got desserts sub Hyundai Hyundai good very good awesome we got American options over here so this is the American area definitely going to have to get some of this we got Tre Cool chocolate sauce I never even heard of half of these toppings and then last but not least we have all the Breads quants and donuts okay now you guys probably are going to understand why I'm not in the best shape I'm for for choice I don't actually know what to get so I'm just going to get a little bit of everything as I was just collecting my food they were like do you want us to give you a selection of uh Hoppers and they've brought me all of these can you T me through them yes Cur leaves this is C leaves Cur leaves and pumpkin pumpkin and egg egg and spinach uh beetroot plain Hopper oh nice we have six variety flavored okay perfect like to eat this okay and then we got the different spices coconut sambal that looks very spicy and then that's like a Chutney okay okay perfect sty okay enjoy thank you so much so here we have seven different types of Hoppers obviously the most famous One the egg Hopper it's basically pancake and then they' put a filling in there which is egg this time and then I've got like six others to try I'm going to get absolutely killed in the comments for using the knife so I'm going to going to use my hands so we dip it in the Chutney it's nice not very filling and very easy to eat this one is a curry Leaf Hopper which basically means probably going to be spicy bit of coconut uh sambar not spicy I was expecting that to be super spicy but yeah that's col all flavor in it like um yeah I was expecting it to be spicy and it's not as great I didn't even know pumpkin was popular in Sri Lanka but it obviously is so we'll get a bit of this that is my favorite there's so much flavor in there obviously tastes a pumpkin kind of sweet the middle is soft and then the edge is super crunchy now we got another egg popper this time it's fried egg so probably different texture oh look at that bit of coconut the beauty of it you can kind of customize it yourself b a coconut b a coconut sambal and then go for it I've got loads of stuff from the from the buffet but I don't think I need it like honestly I could just eat egg Hoppers all day okay we got spinach definitely not my favorite out of all of them I think pumpkin is number one but it's nice and last but not least we have the beetro hopper which is very purple and colorful it's actually nice not my favorite still the pumpkin takes number one spot so I'm going to finish this one off and then obviously the egg on such a good breakfast amazing views peaceful and youve got a selection of any foods you want in the world so like just feeling super spoiled so I just went for a little walk around the area and it's just absolutely tranquil and beautiful we've got like literally a Nature Park over here apparently they've like built 1,300 trees here and obviously there's like over a 100 different species of birds and other animals here so like it's just literally a nature Lover's Dream I am a nature lover so this is like absolute dream for me and of course not only do you have the beautiful nature you have absolute luxury with the pool the facilities and The Lodges did someone say cannonball into the pool time yes please wow it's super deep here this is like the deepest pool I've ever been in well I love it okay I was just coming back to my room and my man fun was cleaning the room and then we just had a nice chat like 5 10 minutes about the cricket about Sri Lanka he loves England you love England yeah I like my friend you know Harry Harry is nice room boy I've been the now start you've been for 18 years you've been 18 years working and he's like yeah obviously made it country people all of people you like the cricket yeah I like Cricket I like football stti and what's your what's your favorite thing about shanka the food the nature the cricket cricket oh Cricket of course I like Crick yeah first my heart and Trigger okay is Sri Lanka going to win the World Cup yeah yeah okay let's go okay thank you so much okay we're going on the Safari guys yes is this the Safari vehicle no no oh we we changed oh oh here we go we're going in one vehicle to the next the boys are going on a safari we're going to meet the alas Alia Al okay we're going to meet the Alia what's the oh W there's monkeys in the car park oh I guess we'll find out more about why they're there put your head okay oh it's very comfy I'll move up thank you there we go I'm going to sport many things okay here we go I'm going to spot probably nothing cuz I'm terrible but you can see many things perfect they have leopard leopard super in here oh wow they are also super rare really yes any chicken P yeah uh sometime we can see that Chien jungle P it's national board of Sri Lanka okay yeah guys yeah they looks like they I heard they're more deadly than the leopards apparently chicken foul if you don't if you're from Sri Lanka you know how deadly the chicken foul if you're not from Sri Lanka it's good that you just be careful of the chicken fowls so we're cruising along to the elephants now so could you tell me more about like the elephant there's a elephant Gathering yes yeah how many elephants is it likely and why are they in the specific spot right now uh yeah here mainly you can see elephant especially uh we can see elephant because of the uh food and water okay yeah but nowadays we can't see Gathering okay noway we can see more than 50 60 yeah but uh some season we can see more than 250 elepant in one Gathering still I mean 60 is a lot yeah 60 is lot and in terms of like the danger yes do the do the elephants get angry yes they angry really when they especially the female elephant they are very angry because of the babies ah do they have babies right now yes sir oh okay we can see all around here has anyone I I like to ask these questions cuz they're just interesting has anyone do shankin die from elephants yeah it's happening uh normally yes really yeah in in not not I mean rural area not common okay yeah okay interesting do humans ever kill the elephants here yeah sometime really do they hunt them they hunt them it's illegal but people do it because the ivory Ivory and people especially elephant they are destroy they cultivate cultivation oh so the elephants are annoying the farmers and stuff yes okay keeping my eyes peeled oh elephant so far you seen anything I've done many safaris before but I did not know you could do a safari in Sri Lanka and this isn't the only place you can do it you can also do um yala National Park yes yala yala most popular because of the leard okay I like I prefer elephants to be honest so I'm glad I've seen leopards and bears I want the elephants I want the Alia so we've been driving around for maybe 20 minutes seen lots of monkeys and stuff but we have just spotted the first elephants and there's a lot of them how many would you say sorry how many would you say there are maybe more than 30 wow yeah it's amazing to just see them eating especially female elephants living as a group you can see how they collecting the grass taking the kicking the grass so only 5 to 7% have tusks tus and because like they are chopped off or you mean like they're born with no Tusk sometime born with no Tusk but people coaching main reason Al they don't kill them they just take the tusks off uh it's a genetic trouble actually main problem is genetic trouble and another reason is people they are coaching coaching okay so uh you saying um after a few years the the male elephants separate yes uh male elephants they living separate after 12 years because they don't like to make with their blood relations okay so they're not incest yeah what about their cousins cousins are Liv in they can they can marry the cousin uh no I'm joking so we have a rare sighting of a of a Tusk male which is very very rare to see F like I said earlier five to s% of them but he's hiding behind this tree he's hiding right there he won't show us his tusks cuz he probably thinks we're going to hunt him down oh he's getting the big camera out you know it's the rare sighting when he gets the camera out I thought he was going to take some photos of me how how rare is that c yeah they very rare super rare in Sri Lanka it's not like India South India you can see lots of them taskers but here you can see fight we got to make sure there's no Hunters around yeah I'll go and fight them if they try and take his tusks the lucky one with the Tusk is very attractive to the female so your boy over there is like the stud of the group he's the most popular you can see how close they are now literally like all the way surrounding the car it's pretty amazing to see I I've been on many safaris but like it's so amazing to see them up close like wild it's just like uh it's amazing how is the tourism in Sri Lanka now after the pandemic and the and the um economic crisis after the pandemic getting better how was it during the pandemic oh really big trouble there not no tourists no tourist that and what about the economic crisis economic crisis uh that be really bad yeah but it's called better S no better okay interesting we've got like a big group of here they're just slowly getting closer and closer to the cars just eating and eating we got the one guy over here who's just chilling on his own and apparently they the males like to go off on their own and be independent a bit like the human males as well they're not so different I'm very independent myself if that was if this was like my family that would be that would be me you got the money shot right there wow you're a great great photographer thank you I didn't expect we saw some pretty crazy things today we saw the Sri Lankan Elephant Love Island and we also saw a tusked elephant so you know I didn't even know you could go for a safari in Sri Lanka and I got to see a new life being created and you guys probably saw that there was like a couple of elephants that were like surrounding them whilst they were having sex and that's because the are they female that check it yes the females come and check to see whether it was successful or not so my guy could have just been shooting blanks or just like not been doing it very successfully and so they're checking for him so it takes a couple of days for them to to successfully uh impregnate them super interesting I was wondering why they were all following them I thought maybe they just wanted to watch we've been given a letter by the hotel it says Harry we would like you to leave the premises right now because you're being a horrible person I'm joking didn't say that it said I've been invited to dinner wow amazing hopefully they invite a lovely shanken lady as well for me anyway it's going to be an authentic shanken dining experience and they've given me a gift which I have to wear apparently it's like Christmas oh here we go they said it's a traditional Al oh is this a song oh hello how do I look I feel like I'm about to do like a catwalk a model model shoot and spin yeah I think I could be a model shanken model okay we're going for dinner and we are carrying oh this way yeah we're carrying the traditional CH torch see not sure if you can see but uh this is like uh the way they used to obviously light the way when there was no electricity so good thing is once you do this it's never stop burning oh really so when we go slow we do like this nice amazing and we have arrived at the Salama which is basically a Sri Lankan meeting spot for people who are out of the city or moving places and they come and have a community and this is where you can eat oh awesome we got cow dong floor and then the roof bit of what's the uh the coconut leaves coconut leaves it nicely and let it dry and then we going to cover it up okay awesome and then we got a traditional fire out there where we cook the meat and then finally it's a little bit modern kitchen but then we've got the traditional style cooking over here is that made of clay or also made out of coconut this is also cow dung cow yes yeah look at this so it's all uh traditional style wood fired and then of course we have a little bit of mod you got to have a little bit of modern these days can't do everything the traditional way but the 90% of this is traditional and this is like definitely the most authentic meal or shanken meal I'm going to have on this trip for sure oh we got some got a little bread garlic bread oh and this very thin okay perfect okay Shri Lankans love like uh they love the bakery like the bread from all like traditional yeah okay perfect start off with this garlic bread cuz it looks delicious oh wow is that an elephant yeah no way wow going to go for the garlic first I'm so hungry honestly I could probably eat this whole plate of bread but I definitely shouldn't because then I'll lose my appetite just like the bread we have at home very delicious just starting off slow getting ready for the main event also oh you can don't know if you can hear that but you can hear the elephants in the background also I love the um thin bread so crunchy okay here we go I've got myself a little bit of everything here we have an absolute feast and the Shri Lankan way going to be using my hands I know I probably got a lot of comments saying why are you not using your hands so guys I'm using my hands and I'm going to go for it first we got to try this fish I've been eyeing up the fish all night look at that fresh and battered oh wow reminds me just of the fish at home in in the UK is battered fish they call it fried fish but we would call it battered okay next up drumstick I'm used to having uh it's a skin okay don't eat the skin okay remove the okay I was iidd can eat I was about to eat the eat the skin so this is a drumstick I've never had a drumstick in my life right you eat this yeah yeah okay oh okay it's like peas yes okay okay so these drumsticks are locally made and they are good very good for your health if you have if you have diabetes and stuff the local doctors actually they uh provide this and you just split it up a bit like a bean and eat the beans okay there we go now I'm going to do what I should be doing and mix some of these together so we're going to get a bit of the cashew a bit of the rice and a bit of the D and then eat it like that oh my god when you mix it together it's just like an infusion of flavors it's actually not spicy at all um it's just like sweet and savory like really really delicious like the nuts the fish and my favorite the doll and apparently if you use your hand you get more flavor than if you use a KNE and Fork I'm not sure how true that is but I've been told that for sure this is the most authentic uh Shri Lankan meal I've had I can imagine people eating this uh at home every night with their family and you know this is just like the highest quality of food you can get okay yeah last but not least we have the desserts yeah this is jagari p it's called what laang okay it's water LA with nuts okay it's made with Jager Jager yes you know speci this is common it's Kebab it's for good for decoration okay yeah nice this is sago Sago pudding it's made with uh coconut milk okay okay uh and this cinnamon ice cream oh nice told deep fried coconut pancake deep fried coconut pancake oh my God okay wow this is insane thank you so much I'm going to go for left to right jaggery it's got some nuts on top oh oh my God it kind of tastes like a Creme Brule if I had to say any s similarities but it's just like a very sugary nutty dessert super soft it's like uh as you go down it get softer what was the name of this sago Sago pudding Sago pudding yeah looks a little bit like rice pudding is rice in there no it's oh okay M oh my so soft next up cinnamon ice cream can you have this as well I can no eat it's just presentation okay okay it's homemade cinnamon ice oh okay I I have a special recipe oh yeah secret yeah secret you can explain no problem okay secret recipe ice cream wow more no more flavor so much flavor yeah yeah yeah very strong very good though I mean cinnamon you can't beat cinnamon you don't have it very often unless you're in Sri Lanka but it's delicious and last but not least deep fried coconut pancake never thought I'd have that but here we are look at that oh my God oh my God I have a special surprise in store two of my friends Maya and will have actually just arrived at the hotel and I'm going to go and teach them how to ride the Tuk Tuk and show them around this beautiful hotel let's go and meet them now all right guys I picked up some strangers and we are giving a little Tuk Tuk ride all right you got it yeah I got it okay all right I'm going to get in the back this is her first time uh driving a Tuk Tuk let's see okay no pressure you got it there we go oh there we go let's go let's go one two and oh there we go should we go faster guys she's so quick oh my God who on the left on the left we drive on the left Sor for she's Spanish don't worry Spanish spish slow down okay slow down for the we have to stop for the security okay okay or just drive through it actually hello boss hello yeah yeah hi I'm not mistake okay left left left left left left this one yeah yeah yeah yeah o okay wow you're natural oh W I love driving you going to drive next oh if you want me to I can never go she's a crazy driver so quick oh wo wo wo wo wo wo wo oh oh there we go oh yeah nice there we go this this is like 10 the the speed limmit is 10 and she's going like 40 this is the best thing I've ever time I love it there we go you can start offering okay be careful here just use the brake use the brake here's the was hello imagine if you just guys have you seen that that was amazing she just backed into it let's go tax taxi need a taxi we'll give you a safari 100 rupees Safar she's the driver she's the driver me you trust my skills they want to lift to Columbo 5,000 rupees Columbo but who drives you I drive I I think they want you to drive not us OB who a good driver you you sorry YouTube yeah nice to meet you where you from s Norway Norway oh wow amazing I'm from England oh also I'm Spanish Spanish M how is how is your holiday good very good how is Sri Lanka uh originally from Sri Lanka but how how are you enjoying your trip very are you making yes yeah yeah YouTube channel Harry jagard is my name yeah but what channel my name Harry jagard that's the name of the channel ah okay yeah okay sty we're giving lifts to Columbo if you want she's she's a very good driver you saw her I just want to ask you one question what is your favorite thing about Sri Lanka and um like why do you think tourists should come here cuz I'm making a video about that what do you think I think hospitality is really nice and yeah they make you feel so welcome and I don't know it's great people I know just the people I would meet these the woman that have been in the place to been staying so friendly yeah it's insane there we go tus should come here absolutely okay yeah there we go it's perfect I'm working for Sri Lanka tourism board I'm now looking for a family that I met yesterday they were so kind and so hospitable I want to give them a reward and they seem like they are less fortunate than me so I really want to help them out if you get there I got to find them they're somewhere here on the left but I just can't exactly remember where so we're going to keep our is peeled and hopefully they're still there they're selling corn on the side of the road how's it going your dog yes oh wild dog scary dog how are you you've been to school class youve been to school finish finish finish okay good this is your bus yes oh wow let's see how he gets to school bye bye bye where's he where's he going school yes oh no way this is him he goes on his own gets on the public bus oh no oh there we go and he's on oh he just jumps on wow he's gone it didn't even stop okay amazing can I can I see your house can I see okay thank you so much I want to have a look inside the Sri Lankan house how is the life in Sri Lanka I am patient yeah uh my husband he's working yes ah what's his job hotel room boy sorry hotel room boy oh really super oh this is your mother yes my mother okay nice you see they've got the uh myd the Buddhist Trine here this also looks like this is also Buddhist no other God okay God Buddhist God Buddhist God ah okay interesting okay and they got the nice flowers real flowers no no no wow so it's like a very local house they made of cement and stuff they have the outside as well I am cooking okay nice and you have the you have the elephants elephant yes elant drinking water no way yes really yes night are you scared scared of the elephants uh I am full water barrel yeah night water coming full really uh morning coming 5:30 5:30 morning yeah coming going to Jungle oh my God that's amazing you have electricity here what electricity working yeah okay nice okay that's good and you have like water water is me water it's working yes okay good you you uh happy yes good well that's just amazing to see I love it I find it so interesting like just connecting with the real people like uh as authentic as it gets okay I'll come have some sweet corn and then I'll go oh yeah look at that fresh as it gets thank you very much this is how many I guess she's so old today maybe over the past few days sty oh it's hot oh it's like I like hot ah really they like it hot hot oh it's too hot for me you want you want to start a shop coconut shop small yeah coconut and honey uh ah okay so you're expanding the range so you want to have King coconut or normal uh normal coconut oh really I I prefer King coconut King coconut is better I 5,000 yesterday yeah I uh shop H oh really you are going to buy from buy oh really coconut pieces uh yeah yeah yeah also she's using the money that I gave her $5,000 which is $15 to help my husband and I am going to uh farmer [Music] uhhuh okay Roof oh you're going to buy the roof oh wow 5000 that's amazing this my money is going to good use my pleasure thank you how much does your husband earn big guest come season yeah uh 6 ,000 6,000 sorry 60,000 60,000 off season no paying 2,000 20,000 ,000 okay let's try M oh my God so good I keep coming back every day for this that is delicious I'm all done sty thank you so much oh there we go it's $3,000 that's $100 because you are going to start the coconut business oh thank you for you thank you sir thank you very much cuz you are hardw working and your husband is hardworking thank you sir my pleasure I come back for more corn tomorrow okay okay okay thank you my husband this your okay you sent to your husband and I want to see the big business selling coconuts and the sign with your name on saying your your shop thank you sir okay thank you so much you you guys are probably thinking wow Harry uh you're just just throwing money away cuz I've done this quite a lot in my shanka series but like it's not my money I'm actually giving away sponsorship money like I get paid by sponsors as some of you probably know and um I decided to just give all that money away um because like everyone wins they win I win because I feel good when I give money away and you win because you get to see some happy content so everyone wins you can't say that there's any losers and that's very rare that everyone wins and the sponsor win cuz they get to uh sponsor so you could support this by literally just clicking on the link and like maybe interacting with the sponsors that would help me cuz then I get bigger sponsors and then I get to give more money away so I'm not sure how much you guys can see but we have come to a little island in the middle of nowhere a few hundred meters from the hotel basically where we can have dinner I'm having a private dinner in front of the where the elephants actually are staying all right so we are starting the the Sri Lankan dishes tonight and we've got an absolute Feast on our hands this is all Sri Lankan food which I absolutely love and you can see you can tell is shanka because of all these different spices and herbs and you even got cinnamon which is obviously Shan's favorite export and then so we're basically having a prawn dish and a mutton dish and then obviously these are like the condiments that will go with it and also D which is my favorite from South Asia look at all these different spices okay we got the man who's going to show us how to make which one you going for first we'll make dal Curry Dal Curry I have already D Curry and mutton yeah prawns y tempered potatoes and beans and Chang coconut s oh nice okay perfect spicy are you okay spicy spicy is good yeah I'm Shri Lankan I'm going to regret saying that you from sir I'm from England first time uh second time second yeah yeah yeah it was so good I had to come back now I start Tre car one time oh wow you're doing three Curries at the same time yes wow okay well you guys had it here he's going to do three at the same time spice I'm getting the spell wo my nose is on fire maybe you put too much curry leaves in there um pepper pepper pepper frush pepper the garlic oh we love the garlic it's amazing like how they do the portion sizes he just knows instinctively exactly how much to put in I'd be clueless I'd be looking at the uh [Music] instruction M woo I can smell the cinnamon in there as well that's amazing so we got a dark Curry a light Curry and then a vegetable curry this one's milk coconut oh nice oh nice so lots of uh local ingredients being used here lots of coconuts lots of cinnamon and of course the curry powders oh my God that is so good I mean got a little bit of a kick to it but that amazing out of I've been to India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka for me spiciest out of all of those countries uhhuh it's the spiciest yeah so congratulations Sri Lanka you won the you won the medal for the most spiciest food enough for you oh yeah sure so much food we're plating into these lovely clay pots like the traditional style this is like the most authentic shanken thing I've done on this trip so I'm very happy about this so now we have all the dish is plated in these lovely clay pots including obviously rice two different types of Rices as well and some also some Sri Lankan uh authentic bread basically so yeah this is like nice little Buffet all uh Al laid out perfectly and I'm just ready to dig in now I'm spoiled for choice but I'm going to take a little bit of everything I reckon you think that's a good idea little bit of everything yes perfect okay here we go we have 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 78 nine different dishes the best thing to do is to mix it all together you got to get creative so I'm going to go for like four different types here we got Dal we got mutton oh yeah that was a good decision definitely a good idea to mix it all together and for everyone wondering that is the spicy bit right there the um coconut sandbell catches You by surprise so just be careful if you're coming to shanka but it's it is really good I'm not you know I wouldn't say it's bad but it just it really kicks you last but not least the prawn overlooking the elephants what a start oh my God oh my God okay everything's eatable okay can I eat this yeah no no I'm joking okay uh uh you eat that this take it flavor okay sure I got to guess the flavor so I can eat the spoon as well yeah oh it's very uh very thin and brittle oh this is going to be hot avocado avocado oh really I'm not very good at guessing that's delicious and we got to try a little bit with the spoon there we go eating the whole dessert that is recycl if you want you can eat the whole thing I will yeah like this yes let go here oh yeah oh there's chocolate there as well oh wow making a video about like um tourism in Sri Lanka and how like the economic crisis was affected um Sri Lanka so like could you tell me a bit more about like what what happened to Sri Lanka during the pandemic and during the economic crisis and is it getting better do you think uh after the pandemic it was not the best time for us but yes it's slightly picking up and now uh like I said the month of August went really well okay and looking forward and our initial market like when the European market picked up yes so that's what actually we are looking for okay so the would you say that the answer to potentially Sri Lanka's problems is tourism initially uh earlier um yes tourism has done um for Sri Lankan economy a lot because you know when it comes to Sri Lanka uh the tourism is based on you know they are doing a lot of they're bringing a lot of for an investment yeah so uh pandemic yes it's really hit for the Sri Lankan economy tourism industry when tourism industry dropped yeah yes it hit really badly but then from I would say the last year September somewhere in Jun start picking up and uh month of December like November December JN so that's the month actually we are looking forward now oh awesome there we go so there is uh light at the end of the tunnel so to speak and look at this guys the hotel treatment here has probably been without a doubt the best treatment I've ever had in terms of hospitality in terms of just like the attention to detail that they have had and also like I've never had a hotel experience where I've actually made proper friendships with the staff whether it's the hotel cleaner the front of Staff the food and beverage manager the chefs the head chefs like they've all been like they you know like there's a certain level of minimum like talk and stuff that they would do in any hotel like Hi how are you but these guys they go above and beyond so shout out to them shout out to the management of cinamon for like training these guys and you know just promoting this uh commun level of communication and like the kindness and Hospitality I think it's just embedded in the Sri Lankan nature but like so so nice um so yeah going to end the video thank you very much for watching and I'll see you in the next one
