Good morning, everyone
if this is the first time you are seeing us
I'm Nicole and that is Mico
And we are currently on a road trip
around Sri Lanka with the goal of showing
you just how incredible and beautiful
this country is in today's video,
we are going to be going along the coast
and enjoying the beaches for one last time
before we head inland
to the more mountainous regions of Sri Lanka.
If you’ve been watching the last couple of videos
you’ll know that we cannot leave Mirissa
without having one final visit
with someone very special to us.
Hi everybody
Good morning, everyone’s tail is wagging today.
Hi girl
So we couldn’t leave Mirissa without one final
goodbye present for our girl.
Make sure you watch our last video if you want to know more about
the history, we won’t dive into it again, because we've done it a lot.
But yeah, we wanted to make sure
she was fine and healthy
and okay and leave her with a nice present before we
leave her again.
Bye sweetheart
Goodbye!
So sad to leave her.
But you know what?
She's in good hands.
She has her own home.
She's well fed.
I think she'll be good.
Now we've got more of Sri Lanka to see
So by the way the plan for today and tomorrow
is we're going to be traveling
from Mirissa where we just were today
and heading over to Ella.
The reason we’re doing it over two days
it's only about a hundred and seventy five kilometer total
and that might not sound like a lot
but, with a little scooter, Wanda
our scooter here
and all our stuff
it actually just takes us a really long time to get places
and it’s not like super comfortable
for longer than like 4 or so hours a day.
5 hours.
We start to get pretty sore
and we seem to go about 30 or 40 kilometers
an hour at most here.
So it's going to take us most of the day today
and then again most of the day tomorrow to make it there.
Sheesh man
Police almost killed us
Holy smokes
Well that was uncomfortable
A little tight for my liking, for sure
Holy smokes
That was the Sri Lankan police everybody
Nice job though hun, nice job
So we just passed the town of Dickwella.
And in this town there's a really nice
beach nearby called Hiriketiya
I think we found it.
Well, I found foreigners, so
Definitely found foreigners
so that means we're getting close.
It's a nice, like, picturesque little beach
show you in a minute
Um, I'd love to stay for lunch,
but we actually got here a lot sooner than we expected.
Yeah.
We’re making good time.
I think we'll just maybe check out the beach
and show you guys around.
And then get moving.
So, isn’t this
one of the most inviting
beaches you've ever seen?
Like, look how beautiful this setting is.
A tiny little kind of cove.
Like little inlet.
You got nice sand going
into, like, turquoise blue water.
You got palm trees on either
side, people surfing in the middle.
You could probably just spend all day
here hanging out,
relaxing on the loungers,
getting some nice food
or going out surfing or just jumping
in the water like it's so beautiful.
Oh man, I do wish
we could stay back with all our stuff on the bike.
I feel like I can't even go that far along the beach.
I'm so scared
to leave all our stuff on the bike, but
this is stunning.
If you want to learn surfing, I really think this is one of the best spots
Like the waves look really good.
Like maybe that’s just today,
but honestly, they look like good enough
to actually get some surfing practice
in, but not so much
like so wild that you're going to have a hard time.
It's beautiful.
We've been driving for a little while
now eastwards
along the south coast, and the road is kind of veering away
from that from the coastline.
We can’t really see the beaches anymore
and I got to say,
things have changed dramatically.
There's also a lot less tourists around.
I feel like we're like really getting
into like the rural parts of Sri
Lanka, really
getting to witness a lot of the local life
and the farm life.
And then, of course, like
this isn't really like
palm trees and beaches anymore.
It's more just like farmers
fields and plains, it seems like.
And palm trees, there's still lots of palm trees
Palm trees are always there
I think we managed to get
around 70 kilometers
under our belt so far but now we’re getting awfully hungry
So it is time to try and find a lunch spot
although we’re finding that
to be a little bit more challenging
now that it's quite rural and there's
not too much around like people's houses
and their farm land, that’s what we’re seeing, so
I think they might be open
So we found a spot to stop for lunch
Turns out they do not serve
typical Sri Lankan food, but they do happen to serve
each of our favorite meal,
which is pizza for me
and chicken fried rice for Mico
So we’re going to chow down on enough food for,
like, a whole family.
I'm thinking maybe we have dinner here, too.
I think we have dinner here
Yeah, this is a lot of food
Alright so that meal was
way too much
so we asked for a to-go bag
but honestly, we have nowhere to put a to-go bag
So uh, Mico strapped it here
So now we have to really hope she doesn’t fall off
Clever my love
If it falls off
then some lucky street dog will get some nice
pizza and chicken fried rice.
And then we have no dinner.
So that would suck
Okay.
I know
115 kilometers does not sound like a lot,
but somehow it's been six
and a half hours since we left Mirissa
We are beat.
I think we are just going to call it in for the day,
do some editing, relax,
and then continue this journey on tomorrow.
See you there.
Good morning, everyone
we are rested and ready for another big day of driving
I think we’ve got about 85 kilometers to do today.
We spent last night
in a place called Tissamaharama
which is commonly referred to just as Tissa here,
something that like most people do when they’re in Tissa
is actually go to a national park here called Yala National Park.
It's really well known because that’s where you can see leopards
here in Sri Lanka
We are not doing that
and we've actually never done that.
And the reason is because
We really think that the government should be limiting
the number of people who go to this national park
on a daily basis because it can be really, really
overrun with visitors,
with tourists, and then unfortunately, as a result,
it really looks like it impacts
like the animals um,
just like their general ability to live out there.
If there ever put regulations in limiting the number of people who
go then we would love to visit.
But for now, we’ve got about 85 kilometers ahead of us,
beautiful open road, the sun is shining
It looks like a beautiful day.
First sighting of the hills
I don’t know if you guys can see that very well on the camera
but I think we’ve just hit
the beginning of the hilly part of Sri Lanka
Say goodbye to the beaches.
But say hello to green rolling hills
and more farmland.
It's so gorgeous out here.
It also is less humid
and a little less warm already
which actually feels wonderful.
Yeah, it is a little bit nice.
I just love watching the local farmers though
It looks like really hard work, yeah
Looks like really hard work, yeah.
Watching is all, is as much as I’d like to do
To get myself involved in
So we're in Wellawaya now, which is like one of the
I guess kind of towns,
north of Tissamaha - blah
Tissa-maha-rama
where we started this morning.
It's really hard to say that word
It’s very long
They have lots of cool, funky town names here in
in Sri Lanka
Tissmaharama,
Wellawaya,
Hikkaduwa
But it's one of the major towns
And then after here, we're
going to head deeper into the mountains
or hills and uh, yeah
Show you more of that.
Show you more of the beautiful landscapes of Sri Lanka from there
Seriously?
This is the fastest we can go right now
I have bottomed out the throttle.
We are starting to now
climb the hills of Sri Lanka,
and our bike is
well aware that we're starting
to climb the hills of Sri Lanka
And that we've got a lot of weight with us,
both of us plus our bags
is not great.
We're not even going 30 kilometers an hour
Oh boy
Find a little bit of flat
weeeeeeeeeeeee
Oh boy
Hey, foreigners!
That’s the first time we’ve seen foreigners since
we left the coast
since we left Hikkaduwa beach yesterday
No, Hiriketiya
I mean, Hiriketiya Beach yesterday,
but that uh... we’ll see lots in Ella
I just think most people
don't like drive themselves there
So, we don't see a lot on the road, but
Oh boy
Come on bike
Come on Wanda, you got this girl
We still have 20 kilometers of this,
I think.
Oh, my God.
You can just like hear here like winding down
*winding down sounds*
We got this Wanda!
Come on girl!
Woo woo woooooo
She did it
We got a flat spot. Wow.
Look at, we’re getting pretty high on these hills
Ah man, it’s so beautiul
Well, Wanda might be having a tough time
getting up these hills, but, man,
they are so gorgeous, like,
I just somedays can't get over
how green Sri Lanka is
like, it's just so stunning.
Just looks like rolling hills
covered in so much vegetation.
It's also like a paradise
for somebody who loves, like, winding
turns on a scooter or a motorcycle
there’s just so many picturesque,
like viewing points.
And it's just like so
calming and peaceful to just drive around,
wander with Wanda.
Also, this is actually a huge part of the reason
that we did not get a tuk tuk
So you might think a tuk tuk
would be better on these hills
but actually they do so much worse.
Because it’s basically just a scooter
with like a casing around it.
And so they're very heavy.
So they actually are really, really slow.
Oh boy
I’m gonna try
You’re gonna try?
I don’t think we can do it
That’s a very steep hill that scared me a lot
All right, well, can you get up with the...
Can you get up now though?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Okay
So, as you guys can see, Ella is very hilly
we had to just pop off the
main road now because we are at the road
that leads to our accommodation.
But it is a very steep road.
But hey, this is probably the only time
we'll be coming up this road
with all of our gear and the two of us.
So hopefully after this we’ll be fine
That turn came up a lot
faster than I thought it did
All right, let's just do it.
Here we go
We won't be able to show you
where we're staying in this episode,
but we promise in the next video,
we'll give you the full tour.
It’s an incredible place
run by an incredible family.
So we'll definitely share it with you guys.
Alright, well that's a wrap on our two day
journey from Mirissa to Ella
We hope you enjoyed traveling with us.
Thank you so much for coming along with us.
If you haven't already subscribed
make sure you click subscribe.
Over the next couple of days, we are going to be exploring
this incredible place, Ella, and we can't wait to share it with you.
Thanks for watching.
I think I might walk a little
and then turn to you when I say we’re Nicole and Mico
So just be doing your thing.
Good morning, everyone.
If this is the first time you're seeing us.
Good morning, everyone.
If this is the first time you're seeing us.
I am Nicole
and that’s really loud.
Incredible this country is
And how beautiful and wonderful.
Why can't I get that?
Because we are on our bike, Wanda.
Today we are going to be, frick.
!@$*!*@$
Do up that strap one more time boo