Good morning, everyone
welcome back to our channel.
We are Nicole and Mico
As you probably know, for the past month, we have been on a road trip
around the incredible country of Sri Lanka.
We are so sad because in today's video
we are finally rounding out the road trip
and heading back to Negombo.
It's going to be about 150 kilometer drive
and we're going to soak in as much of Sri Lanka as we can.
Alright, let's go back for one last time
on Wanda
So today’s 155 kilometer drive is by
far the longest we’ll have done on this whole road trip
I’m pretty nervous if I’m honest
It's like 8:20 right now.
We just left
We are hoping that we arrive, I think
somewhere between 4 and 6pm
to Negombo, I'm hoping
as long as everything goes to plan,
we should be able to make like slow
but steady progress.
I think our biggest like, restrictive
factor is literally just our comfort
It's just a matter of getting out
and taking enough breaks because when you’re on
this seat long enough with two people and heavy backpack
it gets a little uncomfortable
We were actually supposed to do this
drive over two days.
Yeah, that’s what we planned
but then we loved being in Sigiriya so much
that we decided to just do it over
one day and spend an extra day in Sigiriya
Yeah, the original
plan was to do it in two, you know,
take our time, have lots of comfort
stop along the way for the night somewhere, I don't know where.
And then we just
really wanted to stay in Sigiriya
It's so beautiful out here.
It is like a different kind
of rolling green hills
than, than where we were in Ella and Kandy
Lot more farmers fields here, hey?
Yeah, Sigiriya definitely has it’s own
charm and we just, honestly we love it there
We love the place that we stayed there, Otunna Guesthouse
The family who runs the place is just so wonderful
They cooked us an incredible feast last night
for our last night, our last big meal here in Sri Lanka
So many different kinds of curry and rice
If you guys are interested in
learning more about Otunna Guesthouse
We’ll put a link down in the description below
Check out the pictures, give them a call,
book there if you’re headed to Sigiriya
We highly, highly recommend them
Wow, where are we?
I feel like we're in a movie.
Wow. Okay, so
I don't really know where we are.
I think we've gone maybe 50 kilometers.
Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
And this place is like, honestly,
I feel like we slept into a movie.
Yeah, we couldn't help but stop at
like this very ominous, dark looking forest.
That smelt really good
because everybody's making stuff.
It's completely lined
with, like, every...
there are tons of shops
There's tons and tons of shops right along here.
I feel like maybe we're an extra forest and we don't really
like, like a special forest and we don't even realize
I think it's corn
and coconut seems to be the main things
so we’re here for the tea
I'm sorry. Wow.
Okay, monkeys.
So I was about to tell the camera
that this place
seems to be like a rest stop for travelers.
Like you just come,
you grab a roti, have some, have some chai
or some coffee.
But there was a fella sitting next to us
in that chair eating
what was roti and some sauce
And I think he went up to pay
so maybe he was done anyway.
And the moment he left his seat a monkey came and stole his food
Yeah.What a stinker look at him, I don’t know if you can see that monkey eating that
roti up there
Oh, this guy's got a slingshot.
A very common way of deterring
monkeys Here, Slingshot.
I feel like this is like, the Sri Lankan
equivalent of, like, a truck
stop in North America.
Yeah, right.
Yeah. That’s what it feels like.
It's like all these little stalls setup, you just pop up.
Yeah. Have a quick stop
So I think it’s like,
Sri Lanka truck stop.
This is one of those places
where like everyone to me
just seems to be selling the same thing
and I’m just baffled by how
everyone’s in business still
Like that there's enough business
here for all of these people to keep their shops open,
and run them all day, every day.
Oh, wow!
And just like that I feel like we’re out of like the,
the forest from a movie.
That’s so weird
The enchanted forest
So our host in Sigiriya, Dinesh, he suggested
that once we get to this town, do we know the name of this town?
Uh, Kurunegala
That one.
He said that instead of going like through the city
you can take the lake road
and kind of go around a little bit
and hopefully there's a cafe somewhere along here
that we can stop at and get coffee
We are definitely in need of a
small break again and some caffeine
So I got us our coffees
This is the tricky part about leaving
a country is you don't want to leave with, like,
a lot of their currency.
So we’ve taken out a very small amount of money to get us through
to the rest of this trip.
And it turns out
coffees were like 1500 rupees
which has got to be the most expensive coffees, we’ve
purchases in Sri Lanka
So that leaves us with 1, 2, 3200 rupees
for the rest of the day
and a half that we’re here
worth it that’s like $10.
That's like one
Dinner
we’ll be fine.
We’ll be fine
These coffees better be good. Oh, shoot.
Which one did I put down?
One of these is mine. One was yours.
No, Yours has less
sugar than mine.
So, by the way,
I know we haven't actually told you where
we're going to next, that’s
because it's a secret until the end of the video
If you’re
new around here, we're full time traveling,
so it's not like we’re headed back to Canada
at the end of our time here in Sri Lanka.
We are headed to an extra special, awesome country
that we're super stoked for.
But we'll tell you at the end.
I know we've mentioned it before, but if you guys are in the market
for a bike rent or like a scooter rental
or a tuktuk rental here in Sri Lanka
we partnered with Sri Lanka Bike Rent
and rented this scooter from them
and we honestly couldn’t recommend them more
they've been so, so good.
You guys, if you started this series with us,
you know, we started with a Scooter Bumblebee and now we have Wanda
But, we're so impressed with Sri Lanka Bike Rent
like just being really, really responsive to any issues
we had and making sure that like
we were completely taken care of
and our road trip wasn't affected at all by
any issues with the scooter.
They've been so wonderful, honestly,
like they're very much like a full service shop.
They did complete insurance for us,
I love that the scooter has like a luggage rack
and a phone holder.
And I think possibly the biggest perk
is that they completely organized our license
like our Sri Lanka driver's licenses for us.
We just sent them the pictures and documents that they needed
and they organized everything,
which if you saw our video
where we went from Hikkaduwa to Mirissa
was a very good thing because we got pulled over by the cops
and definitely needed to have our Sri Lanka driver's license.
So anyways, we want to give
one more big shout out to Sri Lanka Bike Rent
They really have been absolutely wonderful
and we've had an awesome time
on Wanda during our road trip around Sri Lanka
So far I'm really impressed with this road, by the way.
The road like there's a
like an express highway
we could have taken from
Sigiriya to Negombo
but like, we would never take that on the scooter
But this road is like the secondary highway, kind of
but honestly, it’s really nice, it’s been paved the whole way,
like, there's no traffic
issues, like it's been really nice.
And look at these views.
These trees are amazing.
I love when they like crossover like this.
And they like, create such a canopy.
That’s probably one of my favorite parts about driving around
Sri Lanka, is whenever the trees
are just so pretty and they're
hanging over the road
Yeah, me too
The GPS says we have a whole 15 kilometers left
which means this road trip is coming to an end.
How are you feeling?
I’m so sad, like
when will we...
when we see cows on the road like this
again, you know?
I think we got so lucky cause like,
we got the epic views from being on the bike,
you know, like, we went from the beaches to the hills,
to what felt kinda like jungly forest recently
But then, I think, sprinkled within
sprinkled within all of that
we still got to see incredible people
and to meet incredible people
and we had awesome food
like awesome food
We had too much awesome food
Yeah, too much awesome food, that’s so true
But I feel like road tripping it like really gives
you like everything.
Like you really get to experience just so much of this country
if you get a chance to be on a scooter or a tuktuk or whatever you want to rent
Yeah.
Yeah, I’m so glad we chose to do it this way.
Well, you guys,
that wraps up a month of road
tripping around Sri Lanka.
It's been a wonderful road trip
and I really hope that our mission
of making Sri Lanka or putting Sri Lanka
on your bucket list, I hope in some part
we accomplish that with this road trip.
Yeah.
If you've been watching the whole series,
we would love to hear what was your favorite part?
What Part would you love to visit one day?
We love this country
so much and we hope that we inspired you to come and visit.
Now, the adventure doesn't
stop here, so make sure you hit subscribe
because our next country is going to be
a very special one.
It's going to be
the Philippines,
which is where I'm from.
And Nicole hasn't been there yet.
So we're so excited.
We are super excited.
So we have like a days rest
and then we are hopping on a plane,
bringing you guys along for that journey as well.
And I think we're going to leave you
there and catch you in the Philippines.
Thanks for watching.