Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage - Sri Lanka

This video is brought to you in part by the Sri Lanka Tourism Board. So here we are at the Elephant Orphanage. This is amazing right now. Wow. Beautiful. Let's go down? Can we go down? I want to take one of these elephants home with me. Yeah? Sure? Yeah, I really do man. This is awesome. Tiffin Steadicam, I love your equipment. Amazing. Let's go down there. Let's go. More elephants over here. Beautiful. So nice. Oh my god, it's a beautiful animal. It's okay, it's okay. You're not supposed to feed them or touch them, but I got the bug. Alright, so here on this side of the road for 200 rupee, which is like $2, you can take pictures and touch porcupines. Kiri. Their name is Kiri. Kiri. Kiri is milky. Kiri. Beautiful animal. No, no, don't hurt them. Don't hurt the porcupine. Whoa, look at that, look at that, look at that. How crazy. Alright, so we're about five minutes outside of Kandy and we're stopping here on the side of the road to get some pictures of the view, which is incredible out here. Look at this. Alright, let's go. Alright, so we're now entering Kandy and this is the Kandy Mountains all around us. This is the Kandy Road. And right there, that's a Buddhist flag. Right there. Colombo Kandy Road. Colombo Kandy Road, A1. The first road built in Sri Lanka. So he was telling me that Kandy has about 1 million people and it's the second largest city in Sri Lanka. I can't even imagine how there's 1 million people here. I don't really see that many people. So this is the Mahavali Bridge. Mahavali River. Mahavali River and this bridge protects Kandy. It's the border of Kandy right here. From wherever you enter, you have to pass these Mahavali Bridges. There are four bridges. But there's Buddha. There's Buddha. Yes. It's a huge Buddha. Huge. Kandy. This is awesome. This Buddha is huge. We will try tomorrow. Wow. So this is the main business street. This is where people walk up and down the entire street and there's hundreds of vendors. Kandy is much busier than Colombo, I think. Yeah? Yeah, it looks like. I mean, it definitely looks like there's a lot more people. Obviously, Colombo has buildings. This has tiny buildings. Yeah. And it's in the mountains, so. Look at the Buddhists. The monks. Where? Right to the left. Oh, yeah. Buddhist monks right here. Look at the Buddha up there. The Buddha's at the top of the hill. We'll find something. There's the Hindu shrines right up there, as you can see. To the right. Hindu shrines. Alright, so Suchet was just explaining to me why this place is named Kandy. In Sinhalese, they call it the hilly capital. The hilly capital, which is... Kanda Udarata. The British couldn't pronounce the word, so they said Kandy. It's the hilly capital in Sinhalese, and the British converted it into Kandy. And that's the explanation. This is the last Sinhalese hilly capital of Sri Lanka. Go, go, go, go, go. Alright, so right now we're in Kandy, going to buy me some Sinhalese clothing. Yes. And you're a Sinhalese person, so tell me, what am I going to buy today? Well, I prefer you to have a Sinhalese nice, what we call, lungi and sarong. Okay, so it's clothing that you wear to a wedding, to, you know, to go out. Not just wear it on the street during the day. No, no, no. At all. No, no, no. Okay. Alright, now, I'll see you in a second. Let's do it. This is one of our Sri Lankan traditional girls. This is Sinhalese clothing. Oh, yes. I mean, it's pretty awesome. I love it. The only problem is, when am I going to use it? No, you can use it anytime in the evening. I know, I know, but... Okay, so the total package right now, there's three pieces, and it costs around 10,000 rupees for me, obviously. So that's about 100 bucks. I mean, it's amazing. The problem is, when do I use it? But, you know, man, I feel good in it, though. I feel good. I feel like a Sinhalese. Yeah, really. I wore it. Okay, I'll take it, I'll take it.