Why This Capital of Sri Lanka better than Colombo

I'm taking you to the beautiful beach town of unav vatuna and the gorgeous city of G today the smell of sea is just [Music] amazing this is the most expensive Street in Sri Lanka hello from unava [Music] tuna after spending the whole day at oav valva National Park I headed to the beautiful anat tuna later in the evening for the sunset it took about 2 2 and 1/ half hours it rained a little bit on the way but generally the drive was really nice and pleasant hello from unava tuna the last part of my holiday is going to be around here and I just got here and the smell of sea is just amazing I can't wait to get in the water uh but let's get to a sunset first because yeah it's almost time now the Sunset Point inav vatuna is really beautiful it's close to the upper onat tuna Beach behind the Sunset Point Hotel and and I would recommend getting there a little bit early because it does get busy it was a little cloudy but really beautiful nonetheless I sat there till the sun went down all the way and I felt really nice in that moment it's almost like the seaside was welcoming me [Music] [Music] [Music] I [Music] [Music] [Music] hello hello from unav vatuna as far as the beaches of Sri Lanka go this is perhaps the most touristy and most famous town and it comes with everything that a tourist destination should have tons of tour operators a lot of hotels cafes restaurant Beachside restaurants and the rest of the you know stuff that comes with tourism like yoga classes cooking classes you name it they have it while the streets are all very nicely you know beautifully portrayed and there ton of flowers around it it also has this quintessentially you know shanan Touch look at that behind me and honestly I find that very interesting and nice because you should get a local feel right so we'll walk around there's not much to do in the town itself except for the beach and the sunset um what I like is it's quite easy to explore around from here so the next stop after we walk around a little bit is going to be jungle Beach you can do snorkeling so I'm super excited about that let's go and avat tuna is actually quite small and you can walk from one end to the other in no time I mean with time has grown a bit to accommodate all the tourists which means there's a lot of hom stays and hotels Etc but beside that it's a little bit of a boring place I'm going to be honest I'm staying in a very cute Place inovat tuna it's called the jungle Villa I found it on Airbnb and what I really like is it's a beautiful house like a set up as a local house and also that it opens up to the sort of jungle at the back here and I mean it's nice to wake up to Bird's chair ping right and it's very open very nice which is really great let me show you around if you like beaches and gorgeous Islands don't forget to hit that subscribe button so I could bring you some more [Music] I'm going to the Jungle Beach but we'll make a quick stop on the way it's called the peace pagota and it was actually built by the government of Japan and all the conflict um ridden areas and it was built when there were troubles in Sri Lanka let's go check it out [Music] the pie pagora is nice not only because you get to see the pagora itself but also you get some beautiful views from up there [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so there are two jungle beaches the first one is small and it's usually quite busy the second one is much bigger and it's also busy but because it's big it doesn't seem so bad so I'm heading to the second one check it out it's gorgeous beautiful day for the beach [Music] fun time over I have to go out of the beach nah just kidding we're going for snow C [Music] ready I just returned from snorkling and it was a little bit of a mixed experience well the visibility was really poor but that I can't do anything about the sad part is most of the coral hair is dead I mean by most I mean like 99.99% which is really sad I did get to see some fish and the last stop we made we I got to see some Coral I mean we did make three stops because I thought maybe the guys didn't bring me to the right spot sad um it's not just because of the global warming but the tsunami of 2004 it wiped out this entire Beach as well this is the unava tuna beach by the way used to be a white sand beach which has completely been wiped out and this was artificially pumped all the sand so this is not the real color of the beach I am quite hungry oh by the way um I really enjoyed just you know staying underwater with all these waves coming through like you know it's really fun do give it a try I really enjoy enjoyed it it was really really good so I'm quite hungry now I'm going to get some lunch you know clean up a little bit and then we go explore Gul which is right next door has a gorgeous Castle Lighthouse and apparently it's amazing for Sunset so let's check it out I am in Gul now Gul is actually very close to unav vatuna it barely took 15 minutes on the car here and took took maybe another 5 minutes to that g is actually really nice it's a city that is the capital of this province by the way also full of colonial architecture for example this behind me is the Old Dutch reformist Church there is a beautiful castle here another church a lighthouse and apparently it's a gorgeous place for Sunset like I said before so let's go check out the church and then yeah what else I'm not going to do the museum sorry I find them really boring you probably know that let's go call used to be the busiest port for the whole island of Sri Lanka and when the Portuguese came they built these Bastion and forts to protect the port when the Dutch came after Portuguese they expanded the port and added more bastions and when the British came they gave it a bit more of the whole Colonial wipe that you see today in 1988 G was added to the UNESCO world heritage site [Music] say behind me is pedal Street and this is the most expensive Street in Sri Lanka rightfully so it might not look like it right now but as you walk along there are gorgeous houses beautifully renovated just a stroll down this street is absolutely amazing but I think the best way to explore this whole area is just getting lost in its streets [Music] [Music] in my naivity I thought there was an actual Fort here it's actually the ramp parts or the city walls and that's why it's called the fort area there's no actual for for there is a lighthouse though which is right behind me but generally just walking around is so nice and I'm going to just go sit and enjoy the sunset come with [Music] me that sunset in G was absolute winner and really really beautiful and calm I would definitely recommend you don't don't don't miss [Music] it I'm finishing a beautiful day of safari seeing a lot of elephants and other animals in the odala national park if you want to get more information click on the video above let's get to unav vatuna if you haven't already do subscribe like and comment I always love some feedback this is how 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