Hello friends, How are you? I'm here in
incredible Gujarat and look at this I'm taking you guys to the largest statue in the world today.
Larger than the Eiffel Tower larger than the Statue of Liberty. This is India's
Statue of unity and a lot has been said about this 300 million-dollar statue, okay
But we're not gonna go there because not much is being said about the man the great man, who the statue was made after.
So let's take that angle and talk more about Sardar Patel.
And as you can see what I can see from the people around me there are
just a few people here and there's no foreigners. Yeah, this is purely for Indians simply because
foreigners don't know who Sardar
Patel is but hopefully this video will change that a little bit.
I took a price 1,500 rupees for foreigners that includes the viewing deck that we're going to go to and
between 150 to 400 rupees for Indians depending on if you want to go up to that viewing deck or not
but we're definitely going there.
It's about an hour and a half from Vadodara, one of my favorite places at all of India.
It's not exactly a tourist location, okay? It's not in Paris like the Eiffel Tower,
It's not in New York like the Statue of Liberty.
So many foreigners aren't coming here
but let's let's try to change that.
Let's talk a bit about Sardar Patel as soon as I find and buy my very expensive ticket.
It's the same price as visiting the Taj Mahal, actually.
It's a real shame that foreigners aren't coming here actually because Gujarat has a very rich history.
Foreigners first go to Rajasthan, but Gujarat is equivalent to that. They have the food, they have the culture, they have
incredible sights, they have these amazing salt plains near Kutch and yeah
It's like Rajasthan you can never run out of things to do in the states.
So yeah, I wish more foreigners would come here to go Gujarat.
It's one of my top five states and I'm gonna make a video listing all my my top states soon and
why you should go there? Alright, we got a problem people.
So all the viewing platform tickets are sold out.
We have a 300 million dollars statues with not enough capacity to take everybody who wants to go to the viewing platform.
Aye and apparently they sell out 24 hours in advance. You've got a book a day or two before, okay?
Even though you're paying 1500 rupees as a foreigner
there's no kind of reservation or quota saved there for people who aren't residents from here. So you have to book in advance, alright.
I'm gonna see what I can do. I'm gonna see if it's going to be possible at all today,
I want to make a positive video.
I don't want to have to end
the video right here. I'll go and talk to management and see if something can be done for me. Ok, I got the ticket.
I explained my situation and they accommodated me so good. So we're back on a positive track. Let's go just do this.
I've been joined by a bunch of school kids we're all going on this together. It's tons of busses here tons of kids here.
I got people telling me uh,
This is one of the most patriotic songs in all of India that's playing in the background
so it's a perfect time to talk about who is
Sardar Patel?
Now he is one of the freedom fighters of India, one of the fathers of India and
one of the leaders of
the non-cooperation movement
here in India, the freedom struggle for India. He's a very very important leader here.
So that's why he has this statue over here. Let's get into this statue now, let's go up and
Actually, why is it called the statue of unity? I should explain that.
Sardar Patel's greatest duty to the nation was to unite all the
562 princely states. Before independence, India was a number of
princely states 562 of them, so Sardar Patel, it was his job to unite them all into one India.
So that's why this is called the statue of unity, and that's why we're here celebrating
Sardar Patel. So you've got the statue up here and then behind us
it's actually built on this river and
you've got the massive dam in the background there Sardar Sarovar Dam.
So you can go and explore that after you come and explore the statue of unity
as well, but let's go up and I'm excited.
This is the foot level literally we're up standing next to his feet
and this is where you can come for free on their cheap ticket on that 150 rupee thicket.
The next place we're gonna go
is
another hundred and fifty meters up into the sky into the chest area where they got this crazy viewing gig, come.
We're about to take the elevator up
150 meters to the viewing platform. Awesome.
We've made it at the top here, you could see out to the dam from this part.
It's an open air viewing platform.
But actually along with booking your ticket a few days before you also want to come on a clear day,
It's not really clear. It's quite cold and there's a lot of fog out there. So
honestly, not much point coming if the weather ain't great, alright because viewing distance is about a hundred meters something like that.
It would be beautiful to see all the green fields this way past and around the dam because I know they are,
I know how beautiful Gujarat is. I just driven through these fields to get here. That was cool, right?
I feel like I got a bit closer to Sardar
Patel and I learned a lot about him because the statue was built actually. It inspired me
to read about him and find out more about him and eventually come here.
You guys inspired me to you guys told me to come here when it first opened. But yeah Gujarat wasn't on my my plan
right then and there so I didn't come but I made it here guys, and I love Gujarat. I'm always here,
I'm here at least once a year and especially around Vadodara.
It's just one of my favorite places to be.
And I travelled all around Gujarat already back before I was on YouTube, I got on the bus for a month and
I just kept getting off at other places. I did an entire loop of Gujarat from like Baroda to Gandhinagar to
Porbandar and before that through Kutch.
The salt places and back down to Diu and yeah.
So if you're interested in the freedom struggle, if you're a Gandhi follower, like I am
Gujarat, is heaven for you because of the history because of all the different sites
you can see in Gujarat from Gandhi from Sardar Patel from Jawaharlal Nehru.
It is so rich in this history and
that that's the history I love so.
Yeah, that's one of the highlights for me coming to Gujarat, the history, oh alongside the food. Oh my god
How can I think of Gujarati food I've made a video already
But I'm gonna make another two videos now showing taking you guys around the food.
It tends to be a little bit sweeter. Gujarati's are very sweet and they have their food very sweet too.
Like in the khadi for example and in Haryana
there's no sugar but here in Gujarat, the khadi is super freakin sweet not to my taste
but yeah, I'll show you some amazing foods here in Gujarat.
I'm gonna go find the food court now actually and uh, I'll get something. Let's have a quick look there.
I found the food court do not
plan on having a good meal at the food court here at the statue of unity
okay? There's about three food courts, but they're all not so good.
Probably the best thing there is
Dominoes I guess and they have subway and then they have a bunch of kind of bad Indian restaurants not good ones.
There was one though Jagdish,
this is a famous store from Vadodara where I'm going to next. Eat there
if you're gonna eat something take whatever they have because this store is absolutely incredible.
I covered it in my last Vadodara food tour. I'm gonna go back there now,
I'm gonna meet my friends and we're gonna make some more kind of food videos there in Vadodara.
Actually, my energy levels are, my spirits are really down today. I don't know for no reason just
sometimes you get in that mood in life where you're just like
You're not feeling inspired to make a video or something like that, but you know
I'm here so, I do really want to share it with you guys, but yeah
If that video was a bit down just you know, how I'm feeling today that's all but no no, I'm fine.
I'm good and
you always bounce back after a day or two
It probably means I need to just go and watch some movies and take a rest and stop thinking
because YouTube is full time
actually, you know, you're always thinking, you don't stop and when you don't stop you get run down and you get
The inspiration leaves you for videos actually, you don't have that same excitement because
You've worked yourself too hard. That's probably what it is. So maybe I'll take tomorrow off and
make some food videos. That's what I'm looking forward to
There's no point me even showing you the food that I've ordered because it's just it's not gonna be that special.
Will do it properly in Vadodara. Long live India