The Bodhi Tree - Kataragama, Sri Lanka

This video is brought to you in part by the Sri Lanka tourism board All right, so we just walked about two blocks through all these little shops. It's like three streets of shops And they all have fruits and these offerings right here I feel like we're in a wasteland right now, huh? So what's this a river? So the women are cleaning their clothes right there So it's a many ganga natural river natural river comanic means gem It's come from one of the place of ratnapura, you know, ratnapura. They are the gem islands and These are the one of the historic famous name, which is where the kings live Every hindu old hindu temple in india. They have a huge river So you go at least you bet you know, I think they have shown in the television Shows like hindu Yes Hundreds of people get down and worship and worship And then come out and wear it So it's a blessing Beautiful man with the baby. Yes born with the baby will they bite me? No Will he bite So many black-faced gray langurs and they're all over the um, the shrine all over the shrine Yes, you could see many many black-faced gray langurs all of the shrine And as well as you see some they're still climbing the tree and showing some acrobatics Yeah, I mean this guy this guy's beautiful It's like a huge family over here I don't like to do one. You could see The boat tree the spiritual tree So people come here to worship it they put water inside it. Yeah, so people help this tree and then you can help Okay, you get solve your problems by helping this tree putting water and respecting and protecting the tree Well, that's why it's so big. That's why it's so big. It's double the age of the united states that tree Pretty crazy It's the buddhist flag again Good morning, everyone Day six. Yeah day six of my trip And today we have uh, we have an eight hour drive to colombo we got a few stops to make the first stop we're doing is to haban toda, which is uh, Which is a coastal town right here and we're going to see the harbor and what else are we going to see there? Not the harbor. We are not allowed to go to the harbor. Okay, but you can see the uh, Tsunami affected areas areas And this is the town that was most affected 3 000 people died here And as he was saying, um the tsunami completely leveled the entire town and they just rebuilt it So what we're gonna see is brand new buildings Yeah. All right. Let's go Yeah elephants Where are they taking them to the procession to the procession? What does that mean? Candy festival. Oh, it's candy. Okay. Okay scared me. I thought we're gonna do something bad to them Okay, so we're almost out of the yala area and my driver is gonna buy some curd which is buffalo milk and this is uh A little a little store on the side of the road that has curd And this is honey. So you eat the curd with honey and i've been eating it for breakfast every day. So i'm a little a little used to it, but Can you show me how they do it? So this is the curd and one of these comes in this yes Okay And you take it with honey, huh? How much does this cost? How much is one of these costs? 350 so 350 ruby for one curd thing like that Okay Um, thank you You want to try? Yeah, i'll try the palm tree honey, huh? Palm tree honey. Yes Whoa It's fantastic honey. Yeah Very good Yeah, it's newspaper tissue here Wow, it's very good So if you're gonna if you want to try some curd with honey, this is the place to come 350 ruby you can see one of those With honey, which is very cheap Yeah, drink the honey like a like a beer All right. So here we are in japan toda and this entire town was washed away during this tsunami