Good morning, guys from another video here in Sri Lanka. I’ll show you a couple
clips from this morning. We were saying bye to the great hotel we stayed at the
last couple nights and then cruising over to the bus station about 30 minutes
away. Bahoma stootie [Thank you very much] Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you so much.
The food was delicious. Very delicious food.
Thank you. Stootee [Thank you]
Goodbye.
As you can see, we got- we got some Sri Lankan traffic here. You gonna do the
joke this time bro? Hey
move out of the way my guy. Man where does he come up with jokes
like that? I have no idea. Bro.
I’m here with the British lad right there. Hello, hello. Heading up to Colombo with
me and then we got Trav later bro. We're saying goodbye. He's going
to be shipping out to the Philippines by the time you see this video. They'll
actually already be there so- to another country, it's been a good time my
guys. Exactly, exactly hope to see you soon brother. And it's been fun guys.
Alright guys, we're gonna see if we can find ourselves the best price for the
tuk-tuk. Our first quote was about 12,000 to get to Colombo from the city we're in.
I’m not actually sure which city we're in Embilipitiya. Komada machan? [How are you bro?]
How much to Colombo? Colombo,
meter to Colombo. He’ll give us the meter to Colombo.
How much how much estimates roughly? Estimate.
Sorry. Colombo.
8 000. 8 000. 8 000 on the meter.
Perfect. That's the best we're gonna get I guess. Alright, apiamo [Let’s go].
And that my friend is how you save four thousand should I- Exactly, there we go.
The Brit- the Brit almost took the deal right there. We weren't filming. I asked 8000.
Exactly, we didn't film that part but the the Brit almost gave in there.
This is where we have a little bit of an issue. Yeah that's alright.
Okay. You go- you go in first and then we'll put the bags in the middle so
we both have air flow. Okay. Alright,
guys so we've got our meter running, yeah. Okay good. Perfect yeah, yeah, yeah.
Start a fresh, we're ready to go. Stootee [Thank you]. Bahoma stootie [Thank you very much].
That’s how we got our tuk-tuk driver. It’s a reward my friend. I have to say it's
far thinking from Mr. candy over there. Yeah, yeah.
Never, this is a rule I always have, never go to the first person. Never, never.
Especially if they find you. Yeah, yeah. If they find you we've learned that lesson the
hard way. If they find you there's definitely something in it for them, not
always but a fair amount of the time especially when you're in a very, very
touristy place or not touristy but high- high population area where there's a lot
of movement there's people that specifically look for
areas to make an extra buck. It is what it is the business model
works but if you're trying to save a couple extra bucks, you gotta watch out
for that. So we've got probably a four-hour cruise back and
we've got the meter in process. As you can see, it's a little tight in here
we've got the bags going. There's not much of a trunk but we do have speakers
in the back so that's a win. So guys we made a quick pit stop here as
you can see, there's quite a bit of traffic currently in Sri Lanka there is
a fuel shortage going on and so there's a lot of queuing up for
petrol fuel lines all over the country. I’ve heard actually it's pretty
much seemed to start to pick up over the last couple weeks since I’ve gotten here,
been here probably like five or six weeks now but as you can see here
we've got maybe a 10 tuk-tuk line here, we've got the locals.
Subodesina [Good morning]. Machan komada [Bro, how are you?] Hundai [Good].
Everything’s hundai [Good]. Yeah perfect.
Komada machan? [How are you bro?]
Is there any way we can get ahead in the line?
Alright, we're fueled up in process and it is time to start
what’s said to be a three and a half hour drive based on Google Maps but
that's in a car so I would guess right now guys it is 10:18 a.m.
I would guess it'll probably take us four and a half hours.
So I think we will arrive at let's-
let's go with 2:30 on the dot so just under four and a half hours that's my
guess. What's your guess over there machan [Bro]?
3 p.m. 3 p.m. wow Alright, I’m always, always too early so I’m gonna go later
this time. Alright, fair point that means it'll
take us just under five hours. I hope he's wrong
because let's put it this way my shoulders are a little tight here.
It’s gonna be a long drive, let's put it that way. Guys we're about 30 minutes
into the drive here. I just took a look at the GPS, before
there was another route that showed up that basically wrapped around the
coastline that must be the interstate, and this one's like kinda like the
back roads. So the total time from where we left on this road is about five hours
and 14 minutes if you can see that there. So now it says we have four hours and
six minutes left.
So if that's actually the case which I’m 499.9999999 percent certain.
Both Harry and I underestimated how long it would take.
So I guess we'll see you in four hours
in Colombo.
So, I have a feeling that's gonna be fifteen
my guy. Sorry. It's gonna be 15. Really? That's my bet the long route. Oh
yeah, we shall see.
Alright, we've got about just under two hours left. How are you doing over there
machan [Bro]? I’m trying to fall asleep but it's just nearly impossible because
there's so much bumpiness and buses taking over near death experiences.
A little bit of everything yeah this is probably the first time I haven't snuck
the camera over and caught him sleeping. I don't think it's very possible here.
Look at how much room he's got. Yeah. Yeah normally if I was fully wide I’d be
like that but as you can see, I gotta put the shoulders in
four and a half hours five hours straight,
an enjoyable little road trip and I’ve gotta pee pretty badly. Hopefully, you
can do a little bathroom break here machan [Bro] Insha-Allah.
Alright, looks like we're about to pass Sri Lanka's craziest bus. Oh he's honking
at us.
There we go, we're going for it. Full speed ahead. Machans [Bros].
Guys we made a quick pit stop about yeah, one hour 30 minutes outside, got some ice
cold waters. Luckily, it's not too hot. I’m wearing pants as you can see but we've
even got ourselves some delicious chocolate lava cakes. You ready for one
sire? Oh yeah baby. Oh yeah, these are literally my number one favorite dessert
in the world and let's see if they- they're as good as I anticipated.
Oh that is nice. That is nice. That is
hitting the spot.
You just inhaled that. Literally two bites bro and that thing's
gone. I don't even know what to think right now. I could say g quadruple o d
g quintuple o d.
What do you think bro? Oh my God, I’m glad you got multiple now. Yeah exactly
exactly. Yeah so I got six of them so I wanted to
make sure- I wanted to make sure my machan [Bro] likes them good. Very good. Nice.
Yeah very nice. I wanted to make sure machan [Bro] got some, Harry and I got more than one
so let's go for round two guys.
Oh yeah, that's real good sire. Oh yeah. Oh guys I ended up having a third one once
Harry was filming. I can honestly like six more of them
could have eaten the whole batch they had in there. I think they had 15 of them
but should probably watch the figures that cost about for six of them because
I had three, Harry had two, our driver had one, three waters came out to about 800 so
about four dollars for that so very nice little stop and now we're gonna
continue on with this road trip.
Alright, guys we're pretty much back in Colombo. We're in the greater Colombo
area, as you can see our machan is a pretty spot on the cost about 8452
with a couple spot- stops in there and we're actually trying to figure out
our hotel right now. It's nice to be back though guys. I spent
seven to ten days when I first got here in Colombo and that was already over a
month ago so actually I left probably like a month
ago. Yeah wow, time flies in Sri Lanka when
you're having fun.
Oh and we have arrived machan [Bro].
Alright, we got one there, got another one there machan [Bro].
Well very fragile there, stootee [Thank you]. Oh
I might have to pull that thing out first. Oh
stootee [Thank you]. Let me grab it.
You gotta grab out of the- the secret pouch there.
Wrong pocket, where's the other bag?
You already trucked him the other five bro?
Safe drive back thank you very much, we'll see you on the flip side.
Alright, officially we have arrived. Okay so the total came out to just under
9000 we tossed him 10 000 since he's got a drive back small little tip there.
We’re staying at the Wonder Hotel here in Colombo. So stootee machan [Thank you bro]. Komada? [How are you?]
Alright, and this is it, and your good name? Vinod, nice to meet
you. And this is orange juice? Orange juice, oh very nice.
Refreshing, very nice tasting too. I’ve noticed that in Sri Lanka I really like
that whenever you come to you know any pretty nice hotels, they always bring you
a beverage. It's just a great way to get going, get a nice little refresher in you
especially after that long drive I’ll be honest I was a little dehydrated. How you
feeling after that drive sire? I think I’m gonna take myself to a massage
later. Oh geez, this guy knows how to live the good life. Yeah.
Hey, your boy deserves it. Yeah, that's true that's true. Alright, so our crib
is gonna be up on the fifth floor. We got the spa, gym, café, restaurants, bar
guest rooms and a rooftop pool and bar. Oh, oh, oh. I hear lion beer. Lion beer for
the lions. Stootee machan [Thank you bro].
Fifth. Fifth. Bahoma stootee [Thank you very much].
Alright, let's see what the cribs looking like here five one five,
land ahoy.
Alright, so here's the crib. We've got a nice desk here, a couple double beds here,
flat screen TV and a coffee table over there. Obviously, there's not anything
too special about this place but it's a good value.
Comfortable beds, it seems like. Geez, already passing out over there
sire, you should call me Harry now. And then over here, we've got the
bathroom. Looks like a pretty decent shower, rained out shower
soaps and a toilet. We’ve got views from the toilet it looks
like right into Colombo so that's nice. Yeah
it's a nice place and we're paying what like 60 bucks for one night?
50. 50. Alright, so 25 a pop yeah it's not too bad modern Wi-Fi is decent. I did
actually a speed test and it does 10 megabits a second upload and only one
megabit per second download so it's not the greatest but it's definitely decent.
I’m gonna run a speed test actually up here in the room maybe we're gonna have
better results. Here we go come on come on. Oh, oh baby. Download speed
went up to 11 megabits a second so that's actually doable and come on we
got for upload. Watch it swaps on us. Alright, oh man let's skyrocket it up
to like 35 megabits a second upload but now it just leveled out at about nine
nope 10, 10.3. Alright, that's decent so yeah internet,
yeah we can work with that. The main thing is whether it's continuous like it
doesn't crash or anything. Oh yeah exactly that's the hope. So yeah now it's
back to work guys.
So guys you're probably wondering why the screen just went black. Actually I’m
currently time traveling from the hotel room to two days later as I’ve been in
Colombo basically working out of this co-working space. Welcome to Hatch here
in Colombo. So I wanted to kinda change this video up for you guys and share
with you how as a digital nomad and if you're not
familiar with the term digital nomad basically what it means is someone that
leverages a laptop and Wi-Fi to online work from anywhere in the world,
and as you guys know I’m a YouTuber content creator, I make money through
online video sharing. And so what that means is I require a lot of internet
upload speeds all around so that's usually one of the main things for me
and both all of the other YouTubers to find when we're traveling around is fast
upload speeds and so looking for those co-working spaces all around has been
I’d say overall in Sri Lanka doable. Some of the more remote areas we haven't been
able to have as much internet but we've kinda just planned accordingly and to
you know spend extra time in some of the larger cities or anywhere that has good
co-working space and so that's how I ended up here at Hatch, one of my
buddies Davood you've probably seen him. He’s another YouTuber. He was here
maybe a week ago or so and I was like, oh where's this co-working space it looks
awesome and so yeah, I wanted to share with you guys like this place and
here it is. So it's actually located right near the navy base downtown in
Colombo and this is the setting for it. There’s AC in here. There's plugs all
around and a really welcoming environment like this place is a think
tank you look up, we've got all these different figures
everyone from Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates a whole bunch of people all on the
ceilings here as we walk through. So you have those people to look up at when
you're working as well as a modern environment but most importantly there
is fast Wi-Fi here and so your next question is how much does it cost? So
it's actually 2 000 Sri Lankan rupees to work out of the co-working space here
and that is about 10 US dollars and you have 24 access pass. It's actually open
24 hours a day every day of the week that's why I’m here on a Sunday. You're
probably noticing there's nobody in here and that's exactly why I just said it's
Sunday so everyone is probably at home hanging out while me and the British
legend over there. Hello sire.
Aka the grind master. It's been a while. It’s been a while sire.
So that's why we can walk around here, scream, make a little bit of noise and
give you guys this video to her because we're not disrupting anyone. If we were
here on during the week, there'd be a lot more people in here so I don't think
we'd be able to give you as good of a tour as we are now and then over here on
the other side it's closed today because it's the weekend. That's actually a full
cafe to get coffees, to get food, to get all different types of things so that's
the nice part you have everything right here. You don't even have to leave this
space. To be honest, you could work here 24 hours a day because
it never closes so you just sleep right there on the bench. Don't say I told
you to do that but definitely tempting. But yeah guys so for us I figured, I
might as well share with you what we're doing because me and Mr. Jaggard don't
have access to the cafe right now. The nice part about here in Sri Lanka Uber
eats is available so if you're not even familiar with Uber eats and this is not
sponsored, I’m just telling you how I’m getting my food. Uber eats is
basically an application which connects to local restaurants and then it uses
basically the Uber courier service to bring food desserts anything you
might want to wherever you need it in the city so that's the nice part. I’ll
give you just a rough estimate of what it costs. I wanna say it's just a
couple dollars. I’m looking at the receipt here guys delivery fee 99 rupees
so that's literally 50 cents obviously tossing them a nice tip there like five
times that. So yeah, that's how we get our food here on the weekends and that
is the digital nomad life for you guys in a nutshell. It's very much accessible
to work out of Sri Lanka if you're a digital nomad you're considering coming
here and you need that access. So that's the tour guys, I believe there are more
floors in this building that lead up but I don't think they're necessarily for
the co-working space. I think Hatch is just this massive
startup slash co-working space so other floors are used for startups but yeah
super, super awesome environment. Now guys it's time to get back to work sire.
The boss is kind to us. Nope, the boss always says, can I have the deaf? Get back
to work now. So guys
speaking of getting back to work that's where I’m gonna go ahead and end today's
video. Sadly, it's my last like 12 or 15 hours left in Sri Lanka so it's been
such an incredible time here. I won't talk too much about my experiences about
Sri Lanka because actually in my next video guys, I’m gonna be doing a
question and answer that all of you guys who follow me on Instagram submitted
your questions. I have like over 200 questions I’ve been asked. Some of them
are doubles, I’m gonna answer as many of them as possible about my experiences,
places to go, my favorite places, all different types of things that you guys
have asked will be in my next video where I’m gonna talk so much about Sri
Lanka. So that'll be my last and final video but let me tell you this I missed
so many other places in Sri Lanka so you best believe that I will be coming back
to Sri Lanka in the near future and exploring more of this country. There is
so much to see in this beautiful and not as well-known as it should be island of
Sri Lanka. So yeah guys, I’ve loved it so much here and
thank you all for taking the time to watch my videos, join the journey, leave
your comments, like the videos. All of it means so much to me. It helps so much
with my exploration and my motivation and inspiration to see all of these
places. So I can't wait to share with you guys the next country I’m gonna be going
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