what's up guys welcome to Colombo Sri Lanka we came back here to the amazing capital city of
this wonderful Island Sri Lanka and today we want to see what we can get for 20 US dollars or 7 380
Sri Lankan rupees let's go and find out come on we haven't had any breakfast yet so our first
step today is going to the Royal Bakery which has been an institution here since 1906 and it
seems to be quite a popular place here with the locals so we're just going to try and see what
type of short eats maybe we can get this morning in this beautiful Bakery looks like they have
quite some selection there so for breakfast today we got two chicken rolls and two quiche lorraines
and it was 460 rupees which is about 1.24 I believe and it's the perfect little breakfast
um to keep us strong and keep us going for the rest of the day
yeah perfect way to
start the day guys and for less than 1
dollar and 50 cents this volume of food for breakfast on the go a little bit of street
food there's no better way to start the day especially here in Sri Lanka because in Sri
Lanka they do street food extremely well I'm gonna give this little puff pastry a try
oh my God
it's kind of filled with onions a little bit of chicken and as always a hefty a hefty kick
of spice in there as well very tasty and as I said for a dollar 25 you cannot go wrong what
a way to start off today's 20 dollar challenge here in Colombo Sri Lanka these chicken rolls are
absolutely delicious and you can find these kind of all over Sri Lanka you'll find them
in chicken form they also have fish rolls and you can also get vegetable rolls as well all of them
will have their own sort of unique mix of spices but just for one of these you're only going to pay
around 100 rupees which is roughly around 25 cents and it's a perfect snack while you're on the go
we need something sweet now and it's also really really hot today
so we decided
to come to rio ice cream which is a very very popular ice cream shop or chain here in
Sri Lanka and we haven't actually tried it yet so let's go right in
all right guys so we're here now in Rio ice cream and I decided to go for what is called the jumbo
ice cream and it is absolutely jumbo sized you have multiple flavors chocolate strawberry I
think maybe a mango vanilla and a yellow flavor maybe like a lemon sorbet type flavor you also
have a whole bunch of jelly inside and it looks out of this world I cannot wait to try it I
myself I'm a big big ice cream fan so I'm very very excited to try this and what did you get
I went with the mango Sunday which is also massive I'm not so much of an ice cream person
but I'm sure today because of how hot it is I'm going to enjoy it anyway and in total for both
of these massive ice creams we spent 1 100 rupees which is 2.98 and right now we are
at the second place I'm already wondering how we are going to spend 20 dollars today I don't
know yeah guys we have quite quite a bit of money left over so we're gonna see where it
takes us but for now we're gonna enjoy our amazing ice creams here at rio ice cream
all right oh my God this is amazing I think I might convert to being an ice cream person this
is so tasty I'm gonna give my one a try as well guys so as I said I went for the jumbo ice cream
which is just basically a cluster of a whole bunch of different flavors so I'm gonna mix a
few flavors in together I also have some chopped nuts on there on top so cheers guys cheers to
Sri Lanka and cheers to this 20 challenge here in Colombo oh my God
wow the flavors of that ice cream are out of this world and I have literally around half
a kilo of ice cream sitting in front of me I really want to try the jello as well
very interesting I don't know what type of a flavor it is it's just green I don't know
maybe some sort of a fruit but I'm not sure some type of a gummy bear flavor maybe the ice
cream itself is very very soft very smooth and milky and then I also have a nice crunchy wafer
as well all right guys so after that incredible ice cream and the amazing breakfast that we had
too we have still a little bit over 15 can you believe it over 15 left to go so we still have
a long day ahead of us there's plenty more to explore here in Colombo with that kind of money
while we are walking to the next place I would like to mention two things first of all keep
in mind that you can do things more expensive or cheaper as well depending on your own preference
preferences we are literally just walking down a road and trying to find random shops at the
moment just to give you an idea of what you can do with twenty dollars and also twenty dollars
for locals in Sri Lanka is quite a bit of money so um if you would talk to a local person they
would probably be able to keep going for several days probably a week or two with that twenty
dollars so twenty dollars is a lot of money obviously we're just trying to show tourists
how far you can get with your money here in Colombo so guys we're feeling pretty sleepy
after all the food that we had so now we're at the Java Lounge here in Colombo we're going to
try and get some caffeine with the money that we have left over let's go and check it out
so guys we had a fantastic little time there in the Java
Lounge we basically had two cappuccinos and a nice chilled bottle of water as well it was a really
nice environment it kind of almost felt like a Costa Coffee or a Starbucks type of a Vibe like we
have back in Europe so that was a nice little bit of change of pace we got to relax do a little bit
of people watching as well now the total cost for the two cappuccinos medium sized and the chilled
bottle of water came to 1795 rupees now that is a little bit more on the expensive side for coffee
you obviously can spend a lot less on coffee here in Colombo we decided to go for a little bit more
of a nicer experience plus we're actually trying to get through this money and it's almost proving
difficult at this stage but um 1795 Rupees is four dollars and 86 cents and this cute little cafe
place was so so nice as well I even got a little bit emotional because of how Christmasy it was
now there was like nice Christmas music running in the back which is why we weren't filming and
they had a lot of decoration going on as well I haven't been home for Christmas in three years I
want to say I think it's three years now so yeah it's a little bit more on the emotional side but
also very nice to actually get some Christmas Feeling here all right guys so it's a little
bit later on in the day we actually went back to our accommodation here in Colombo had a little
bit of a rest midday nap if you will but now we're ready to go and finish off this 20 challenge we're
actually gonna go and get some more food we're gonna go and have some nice dinner all right you
guys we're trying really hard to spend all of that money so there we went to an Indian place
and we got some nice butter paneer we got garlic chicken some naan bread obviously a bottle of
water and the rice is currently being prepared in the kitchen so we are going to have some nice
white rice with cumin seeds from what I remember and this is going to be so delicious actually it
looks so so nice I cannot wait to dig in so yeah guys the name of this restaurant is called the
chaat Co and it's Indian 3D style and basically we got rice two curry dishes a Butter naan we're
gonna jump in and give it a taste test now so this is kind of like the final leg of
this 20 Challenge and both of us are actually feeling pretty hungry now because as I said we
had a nap so Naomi is currently loading up her plate full of rice thank you so much thank you
yes I'm already starting to dig in after that rest we're actually a little bit hungry so
I'm really looking forward to this and I'm just gonna take a little bit of everything basically
a little bit of everything is always the best way to do things I feel like okay got a little
bit of this and a little bit of that let's try the naan first that's always the part that I'm
super oh it's actually really hot it's the part that I'm always super excited about is the naan
take some nice butter paneer with it oh yeah
I love it we just got some Papadoms out of the kitchen as well
and just to give you an idea what the texture of a papadum is listen to this
it's perfect it gives such a nice crunch to every single rice and Curry dish so what you want to do
just load up your fork or hands depending on how you eat with some rice and Curry and then
um perfect crunch to any dish that you might eat it's so so tasty and the rice as well that we
have the rice is mixed with cumin seeds as I said before it is so fragrant it's beautiful so tasty
guys that meal was absolutely delicious and the total of that entire meal came to just over 3
000 rupees so 3080 but it was absolutely out of this world incredibly delicious both of us are
very very full and very happy as well and believe it or not we actually still have 1 000 rupees left
so we failed at the 20 challenge because we're so full obviously now we could go out and buy some
clothes or something like that or vegetables but we wouldn't use it so we're just going
to go and give the 1000 rupees to some people in the street that might need it we're gonna go and
distribute the thousand rupees out to some local people hopefully that will need it so let's go
thank you
wow guys okay so we had an epic fail at trying to spend twenty dollars in
Colombo Sri Lanka in 2022. nevertheless we had a fantastic day and we love colombo
so so much which is why we wanted to do another video while we're stopping here and actually
tomorrow we're going to a place that we haven't shown you at all so far on our channel so we
cannot wait to show you that as well yeah it's a little bit further south from here we're very very
excited to show you guys we actually went with the rest of the money that we had and just handed it
out to four different locals so hopefully we gave them something that they can use for a little bit
of food or whatever but yeah a little bit of a feel-good ending to this video twenty dollars
in Colombo the challenge we totally failed just shows you guys if you're coming here as a tourist
your money if you're using dollars or Euros or Yen even is gonna go a lot longer here than it will in
your home country so check out Sri Lanka 100 I couldn't agree more but for now that's all from
our side my name is Luke my name is Naomi we are the two mad explorers and this is your reminder to
keep exploring see you guys in the next Sri Lankan Adventure bye bye