After 10 weeks in south Sri Lanka I finally just left and that was 10 weeks of a lot of editing
a lot of partying, lots of making really good friends that I hope to see again
but now it's time to go and today I’m going to Ella in the middle of Sri Lanka but first on
the way I’m going to this national park and I’m gonna try to go into a safari
I’m basically doing this safari by myself in a truck which is meant for six people
because I can't find another group and the people outside are just very scammy.
They won't let me join a group because they make more money if I go by myself.
First animal sighting. Just a peacock. It's an interesting dynamic here, my driver is like
stepping out of his window and telling me about these animals
Just saw our first elephants of the day, see a mother and a baby over there.
I think we've hit the jackpot with this spot
because there's tons of monkeys including a baby and a mother monkey and there's a
crocodile right next to them and it's like a small crocodile, a young one, and right behind
it there's a peacock and I just saw a turtle as well although I couldn't really film that
Found an elephant behind us. This one's closer. This is like a 20 or 30 year old
female elephant and now all the other jeeps are coming here because everyone found an elephant
That was a very colorful peacock
Found this family of big birds that apparently eat fishes and turtle babies. Looks like
they're looking for their food right now.
So it's starting to rain a bit but honestly this weather
is a really nice break from the extremely hot and humid weather of south Sri Lanka.
This is the first time in two months that I’ve been able to wear my pair of jeans
and have actual pockets so this is also nice. Finally found a male elephant too right there.
So I used to think that elephants go around and eat banana trees but apparently that's something
that only like domesticated elephants do. If these find bananas they just like throw it away.
These ones just walk around all day and eat grass
So many elephants. Wow. Okay look at all these elephants behind me. No touch.. real wild yeah?
So we found a full family of elephants right here. There's a baby too
This is the mother or the grandmother? Yeah. So no papa they live alone
Yeah. This is a baby, one so small
That is a huge elephant. That was so so so cool. That huge elephant that we saw at the end,
that was really lucky. Usually apparently most people don't get to see a huge elephant,
forget about seeing one that close. So I paid 13 000 for the safari which is around like I think $45
given today's exchange rate and at first I was wondering if I was like overpaying but
that was worth every penny. I’m so glad I got to see so many freaking animals and so many
wild elephants on my first ever safari ever. Yeah I think that's my first ever safari which is kind
of crazy. I used to be really into zoos. When I was a kid that was my favorite place to go but
then growing up I kind of realized that that's not the best way to go see animals: seeing them
caged up. So if you want to see elephants in their majestic pride and if you have the chance
make sure you come to a safari like this where you can see them in their natural habitat. So right
now I’m gonna go to Ella, take this car back and it's actually getting dark so I’m gonna finish the
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catch you guys in the next video from probably Ella or somewhere else in Sri Lanka