24 HOURS WITH THE OLDEST TRIBE OF SRI LANKA 🇱🇰

Añadido: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]I discover an indigenous tribe that is slowly disappearing.

[00:00:08]So I have to follow them now.

[00:00:13]This is where they actually live.

[00:00:15]>> They are the very first inhabitants of this island. They are called the Va people.

[00:00:29]So, I decided just to show up there and I actually spent 24 hours with them.

[00:00:35]>> Okay. I jump on your back. Huh? Okay.

[00:00:39]>> Yeah.

[00:00:41]>> I was completely shocked and blown away by what I've experienced.

[00:00:48]>> I really don't want to die here.

[00:00:50]>> And I'm not going to lie, I was also very scared to die. You will see very soon why. Let's begin. Guys, it's 2:30 and we are leaving this treehouse.

[00:01:11]All right, guys. It's time to leave.

[00:01:13]Started to rain just now.

[00:01:22]Let's go, guys. I have no idea where I'm going today. Also, today is like go with the flow towards the coast. So, towards Candy, maybe somewhere else. Let's see.

[00:01:34]Also, the weather.

[00:01:35]>> Actually, this entire trip has been like this so far. No plans, no bookings, just going with the flow.

[00:01:52]Sri Lanka is full of this beautiful rice fields everywhere you go. That really reminds me of Bali, of Ubud in a way.

[00:02:01]And I just discovered that about 100 kilometers from here there is the oldest indigenous tribe of Sri Lanka. They're called the Veda and they're also known as the Dambana community. So, I'm thinking maybe I should uh try to go there and see what is going on. Maybe visit a little bit. And their lineage goes back 30,000 years ago. So, they're really really like hardcore Sri Lankan.

[00:02:27]So, I'm thinking, yeah, maybe I'll go in that direction and see how it goes. Just go with the flow. The Va community.

[00:02:35]Let's see if we can make it there.

[00:02:42]I really hope I can make it there because as I said the VDA community is slowly disappearing. So maybe in a few years or a few decades they might not be here anymore. The reason why they are disappearing it makes sense but it's also unfair in a way and we'll discover why very soon. Let me close this. If not I'm going to make everything wet here.

[00:03:11]Thank you so much.

[00:03:12]>> I want to go to the Dambana Dambana community.

[00:03:15]>> Dambana 80 km.

[00:03:20]>> 80 kilome. Okay, good. So the Dambana tribe is 80 kilometers away from here which with a tutu can take half day easily.

[00:03:30]Feels good.

[00:03:32]Unfortunately, the rain didn't stop, but it actually increased even more. And driving in rural Sri Lanka is an experience in itself, man. Wild animals on the road, locals that think that I'm a taxi driver and ask me to stop and to bring them around, which is actually fun.

[00:03:55]But I was getting worried because the time was passing very quickly. I didn't have an accommodation and I was in a very rural area.

[00:04:04]>> And again, I'm going in the middle of nowhere and I have no idea where I'm going to sleep tonight.

[00:04:09]This area is really remote. Not really.

[00:04:13]Tourists, they don't really come here.

[00:04:16]Where is this Dambana community, man?

[00:04:19]I've been going for like hours and hours. Rice fields, rain in the middle of nowhere.

[00:04:26]I hope I will find something there.

[00:04:28]Maybe there is nothing, who knows?

[00:04:32]>> And then finally after hours, I found someone from the Dambana community.

[00:04:38]Especially one guy, Kalúa told me that he can bring me inside the village and show me around.

[00:04:46]>> Damana.

[00:04:47]>> Ah, so you are >> Kalua. Kalua.

[00:04:49]>> Kalua.

[00:04:50]>> Kalua.

[00:04:51]>> So you are from the tribe.

[00:04:54]>> Kalua.

[00:04:55]>> Kalua. you vada.

[00:05:01]>> Oh wow.

[00:05:06]Oh no.

[00:05:08]Okay.

[00:05:11]>> Yeah.

[00:05:12]>> Where?

[00:05:13]>> Where?

[00:05:15]>> So this is the river that connects the main village, the civilization >> to the tribe. So we'll continue further into the jungle.

[00:05:28]Mhm.

[00:05:31]>> Okay.

[00:05:39]>> Electric.

[00:05:40]>> Electric >> elephant.

[00:05:41]>> Ah, for the elephant. So here they have the electric fans to keep the elephants away to not let the elephants in.

[00:05:50]>> Mama ketchuck.

[00:05:51]>> Mama ketchup.

[00:05:52]>> Hundai.

[00:05:52]>> Hundamay.

[00:05:53]>> Mama ketchuck.

[00:05:54]>> Mama ketchuck. Hondai.

[00:05:56]>> Hondai.

[00:05:57]This you have tattoo.

[00:05:59]Tattoo.

[00:06:01]>> Vea symbol.

[00:06:02]>> Ah, Va symbol.

[00:06:04]>> Interesting. It kind of reminds me the the freedom man of Morocco, but no, it's not the same.

[00:06:13]So, Kaloo is bringing me to the tribe and we have to go a little bit Honda Ponday.

[00:06:19]>> Pondai.

[00:06:20]>> Pondai.

[00:06:21]>> Pondai.

[00:06:22]>> It's go >> Italy. Italy. Honda.

[00:06:27]So it's a bit inside the jungle actually. So >> Caisua >> family uh vada family live in jungle house.

[00:06:48]>> 400 400 >> 60 five >> live here. Where where jungle?

[00:07:02]>> So yeah, total they have 460 Vas families living here and they're all spread around the jungle and all this massive like natural area.

[00:07:16]Oh, let's see where we are going. I have no idea.

[00:07:20]As we said earlier, the Veda tribe is slowly disappearing. There are two main reasons. Number one, the loss of traditional hunting grounds because the Veda tribe is a hunting tribe. But in 1983, the creation of the Maduru Oya National Park legally prohibited to enter their ancestral forest and to hunt or gather food inside the forest. So basically from one day to another their hunting practice became illegal. I completely understand the government but at the same time you have completely killed their source of income and also their source of food. But there is also another reason why they're disappearing.

[00:08:07]Man has been raining like for a few days. So he this is almost like a river.

[00:08:13]Yeah. Damn. Kalua barefoot the jungle. The real jungle man.

[00:08:23]And I still have no idea where we are going.

[00:08:28]Kalúa elephant. Elephant here.

[00:08:31]>> Have a >> elephant.

[00:08:34]>> Oh yeah. That's the poo poo from the elephant. So this jungle area is full of elephants. I mean most of Sri Lanka is full of elephants. There are so many around but also here. The second reason is because of the development and modern economic pressures. Sri Lanka obviously is becoming a developed society. So with infrastructure, technology, smartphones, social media, tourism, etc. And inevitably the ancient tribes of Sri Lanka are losing their roots. Especially the younger generations here in Dambana are integrating more and more into the mainstream Sri Lankan society. Many of them are moving to Colbo to find like regular jobs in construction, domestic work or manufacturing.

[00:09:28]Oh, nice. This is like the >> Vasperation.

[00:09:34]>> Meeting >> meeting.

[00:09:36]>> Okay.

[00:09:37]>> 8 9th August.

[00:09:39]>> August event.

[00:09:41]>> Yeah.

[00:09:41]>> Vas all come here.

[00:09:43]>> Come here.

[00:09:45]>> 62 Vas village.

[00:09:47]>> Okay.

[00:09:47]>> 62.

[00:09:48]>> 62.

[00:10:01]It's getting late and uh I don't have any accommodation for tonight. And I came literally in the middle of nowhere here to see this pedas community, this indigenous, the oldest community of Sri Lanka, which is crazy to think about it.

[00:10:18]But um yeah, I don't know where I'm going to sleep tonight.

[00:10:26]Kalua. Yeah.

[00:10:28]>> Where can I sleep tonight?

[00:10:30]You >> cave.

[00:10:32]>> Huh?

[00:10:32]>> Cale house. K.

[00:10:34]>> Yeah.

[00:10:34]>> It's gone.

[00:10:35]>> Have >> cave.

[00:10:37]>> Yeah. Sleeping.

[00:10:38]>> Sleeping.

[00:10:39]>> One night.

[00:10:40]>> Treehouse.

[00:10:41]>> Ah. For me.

[00:10:48]So it seems like they have a treehouse for me where I can sleep tonight. I asked them if I can see it first and then I will decide. So because the tribe is disappearing, the government is trying to help them. And here in the community, they have built this little museum and tourist center so the people can learn about the tribe and it also provides some jobs to the VA community.

[00:11:11]Ah, powder for the face.

[00:11:17]>> So, I decided to pay them a little bit of money to show me their ancient hunting traditions, their rituals as well, and also the traditional dances that they have.

[00:11:28]>> Hey, papito.

[00:11:32]>> But obviously, I'm not here to see a show for the tourists. So very soon I will bring you inside their life, inside their home, and we're going to see the real deal, the raw and authentic Va experience. In particular, one thing really broke my heart.

[00:11:52]I almost tear up when I was inside and I just asked to come outside because it's it's a bit intense, you know.

[00:12:00]And yes, I will also sleep on the treehouse. And I will also be terrified to lose my life. And you will see why very soon. So they turn on the fire just with a stone.

[00:12:30]So I think now they got a little bit of a fire.

[00:12:35]Wow.

[00:12:38]So that was enough. The little bit was enough.

[00:12:42]>> No, the little the little spark was enough to turn on the fire.

[00:12:51]Wow.

[00:12:53]>> Yeah. This from >> Jungle.

[00:12:58]>> Jungle >> flower.

[00:13:00]>> Jungle flower.

[00:13:02]>> There you go.

[00:13:04]>> Wow. Just that little spark was enough to turn on the entire thing.

[00:13:21]Where you go?

[00:13:24]>> The fire is on.

[00:13:27]>> Wow.

[00:13:28]>> Never seen something like that.

[00:13:33]>> Good job.

[00:13:37]>> Look at these little papitos. They're hiding. They like you, huh?

[00:13:43]Next was a hunting simulation which to be honest kind of left me with mixed emotions.

[00:13:55]Butter butter thinking that they were actually hunting just few years ago and now they just do this little show for the tourists. I don't know. As I said, I have mixed emotions. But let me know in the comments down below. What do you think?

[00:14:18]Is a good thing that they make hunting illegal for them or not?

[00:14:30]This ritual is called Kiri Koraha and is one of the most important ceremonial rituals of the Veda people. It's basically an ancestral spirit invocation ceremony, a way of communicating with the spirits of the deceased ancestors and also the forest beings. At some point, the shaman also enters like a trans state and is believed to be possessed and guided and influenced by the ancestors spirit.

[00:15:06]The goal of these ceremonies is usually for healing illness, asking for protection, blessings before hunting, for guidance as well or just for maintaining harmony between humans, ancestors and nature. In Va tradition, they believe that their ancestors they never fully disappear. They basically remain connected to the living world and they can help the people that are still alive here on this earth. So the connection to the spirit world is very strong. But as I said, I'm not here just to see the tourist shows, but I really want to get inside their life and really see how they live nowadays. So I asked them to bring me inside their village.

[00:15:48]And now the real and raw experience begins.

[00:15:53]>> What is this?

[00:15:56]>> Yeah.

[00:15:57]>> This is called arkanat or also known as beetle nut.

[00:16:06]Oh >> yeah, I try.

[00:16:08]>> Yeah, >> I try.

[00:16:09]>> Yeah.

[00:16:10]>> Yeah, >> why not?

[00:16:11]>> It's highly addictive and I will tell you more about this later on in the video.

[00:16:22]>> You go.

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[00:18:05]>> So I'm here now with Tissa Tisa.

[00:18:09]We are going to see the place where I can sleep tonight.

[00:18:14]>> Your name?

[00:18:15]>> My name Gabby.

[00:18:16]>> Gabin.

[00:18:16]>> Gabby.

[00:18:17]>> Gabin.

[00:18:18]>> Gabby.

[00:18:23]going.

[00:18:24]>> Okay.

[00:18:26]So, I have to follow them now.

[00:18:32]This is where they actually live.

[00:18:37]Hello.

[00:18:41]Yeah. Now, we're really entering into the the village.

[00:18:50]Man, where are we going >> here? Elephant.

[00:18:56]>> No, >> no elephant.

[00:18:59]>> Night elephant.

[00:19:01]>> Elephant. Night time.

[00:19:03]>> Okay, perfect.

[00:19:06]There's a river here.

[00:19:09]Oh my god. I think I can see there is a house there.

[00:19:18]Cave.

[00:19:20]>> Huh?

[00:19:20]>> Cave.

[00:19:21]>> Cave. Yeah.

[00:19:23]>> Stone. Cave.

[00:19:23]>> Stone. Cave.

[00:19:27]So, there's a cave there. Don't know if someone is leaving or they're just doing laundry. Someone live there. Cave.

[00:19:35]Laundry. Washing.

[00:19:38]Oh, >> sleeping. Ah, >> sleeping. Oh, so someone sleep there.

[00:19:48]I'm going to be honest with you. As soon as I saw the treehouse, I got really worried.

[00:19:55]>> Me sleep there?

[00:19:56]>> Yeah.

[00:19:56]>> Only one person.

[00:19:58]>> Two, three, four.

[00:20:00]>> Two, three, four.

[00:20:03]Yeah. And here elephant come.

[00:20:08]You look it.

[00:20:10]Ah.

[00:20:12]Ah. Electric.

[00:20:15]I really don't want to die here. And as I said like few days ago, a foreigner was killed by an elephant.

[00:20:23]So man, even to go up here is not easy.

[00:20:29]>> Okay. Elephant attacks happen quite frequently here in Sri Lanka and they easily kill people or just destroy everything.

[00:20:42]Even a medium-sized elephant can easily come here and destroy this treehouse within seconds. That's why I'm worried.

[00:20:53]>> Okay.

[00:20:56]Ah, this is the treehouse.

[00:21:01]This for me, >> one person sleeping.

[00:21:04]Okay, man. This is crazy. And then super high up. Look at this.

[00:21:19]>> Here. Elephant. No.

[00:21:23]Elephant.

[00:21:24]>> Yeah.

[00:21:26]Okay. So, yeah, the elephants are coming just right here. But there should be like an electric fence that protects this treehouse from the for the elephant to to cross over here. I hope. But you never know, you know, if they want to just destroy it and kick it, they can easily do it.

[00:21:49]>> These guys are jungle people and they're used to it and they're very connected to nature and wildlife, but me, I'm a spoiled tourist that it's even scared of its own shadow.

[00:22:03]That's why I don't know if I should sleep here or not tonight.

[00:22:15]So guys, I decided to stay for the night there, but only because they guarantee me that no elephants will come because there is electric fence otherwise I would have skipped. Little did I know that there are no guarantees in the jungle and that night things will go in a different way.

[00:22:40]It's still daytime and there is not much to do on the treehouse. So, Kalúa now wants to bring me around the village and show me how the tribe lives. One house is here and then, as you can see, they're all spread out inside the jungle.

[00:23:04]Unbelievable.

[00:23:06]They literally live deep into the jungle.

[00:23:12]He brought me to this house and it broke my heart.

[00:23:19]>> The couple is very welcoming and very friendly and they show me the house inside, outside.

[00:23:27]This is the toilet over here and that's the back of the house.

[00:23:32]They're doing some laundry.

[00:23:39]And then I asked Kalúa what they do for a living and he told me that unfortunately they don't really have a job. Some people from the village help them from time to time but their life is definitely not easy.

[00:23:52]>> Is the bedroom.

[00:23:53]Okay. Little puppito.

[00:23:57]>> So cute.

[00:23:58]>> And then they brought me inside the house again and they show me their daughter in the bedroom. Unfortunately, she's disabled. She's 18 years old. And yeah, life is not easy for the family.

[00:24:12]>> Hello.

[00:24:14]Hi, beautiful.

[00:24:18]Hello, beautiful.

[00:24:26]Yeah, guys, to be honest, I was expecting just to come here and uh just that he will show me like a regular house, but I didn't expect to see the the daughter um in this condition. And the family is super sweet and they're struggling unfortunately. I almost tear up when I was inside and I just asked to come outside because it's it's a bit intense, you know. Uh I don't know. I just asked their WhatsApp number and their bank account.

[00:24:56]They have a Sri Lankan bank. They don't have any other way. But if you guys feel like supporting the family, supporting the kid with any way that you want. Can be food, can be I don't know, maybe just get in touch with them and ask them what they need.

[00:25:13]That's the only thing I can do right now because it's breaking my heart and they're also asking me for help. I support them a little bit, but I also had to support for many other things, the trip, sleeping here, and also paying for the guys for the thing that they show me around. But yeah, when these kind of things happen and I'm here and it's happening to me and I'm recording, I see as a sign that it had to happen and I can be like a channel. Maybe God can use me as a channel to put in touch this family with someone that is willing to help and they can have a better life.

[00:25:48]So, I'm just doing my part and I I leave the contacts down below. Now, they ask me if I want to eat something and say no, it's okay. But they're insisting to making me some food.

[00:26:01]No words. This is I think it's lentil dal and rice.

[00:26:05]>> Rice.

[00:26:05]>> Yeah.

[00:26:06]>> Yeah.

[00:26:09]>> Aito, you follow me everywhere. not helping me.

[00:26:13]>> So, some rice with the >> from the heart.

[00:26:18]>> Yeah.

[00:26:19]>> Two heart. No, one heart.

[00:26:20]>> One heart. Yeah.

[00:26:21]>> You are my friend.

[00:26:22]>> Yeah.

[00:26:24]He's the he's the father. I'm telling him, don't worry. We'll we'll help, you know. I'll try my best to make this video and ask people to support because they really need help. And u I'll I'll do my best and if you guys feel it, you can support this beautiful family.

[00:26:43]Okay.

[00:26:44]>> Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you.

[00:26:53]>> We then continued the exploration around the village, but let's just say that the emotions were still overwhelming.

[00:27:06]Hondaay.

[00:27:09]>> He lives He lives here.

[00:27:11]>> Hondai.

[00:27:12]>> Honda.

[00:27:12]>> Hondai.

[00:27:14]Honda.

[00:27:15]>> Honda.

[00:27:15]>> Honda.

[00:27:17]>> So yeah, this is a proper village like people walk around, they go back to their houses. It's really interesting because it's really spread out. So there is not like a proper uh center or town.

[00:27:30]It's just spread out in the jungle and people meet each other in the middle of nowhere like this. Wow.

[00:27:42]>> I just asked Kalua like, "Do you have WhatsApp?" He said, "No, I don't have a phone." Kalua, no phone. Zero.

[00:27:50]So, you cannot get in touch with Kalua.

[00:27:52]He said, "You can contact the the family that has the daughter that they just gave me the WhatsApp. If you want to get in touch with me, just contact them and they'll pass the message to me." Most of them, they don't have any phone.

[00:28:06]No phone. You don't like You don't need.

[00:28:11]>> No.

[00:28:12]>> No need.

[00:28:14]>> Va >> Va original.

[00:28:16]>> Yeah.

[00:28:17]>> No phone. No radio. No TV.

[00:28:20]>> No TV.

[00:28:20]>> No. Electric.

[00:28:22]>> No electric also. Yeah. Some of them they have the desire to adapt to the modern society while some others they don't want and they want to keep the the ancient tradition and live like a simple lifestyle.

[00:28:37]Hello. Hi.

[00:28:42]>> So this community have different name.

[00:28:44]They call it Va. They call it also Dambana community and they also call it >> your name Valto.

[00:28:53]>> Valto. Valto.

[00:28:54]>> Vanto.

[00:28:55]>> Valto. So, Vanalto basically means forest dwellers because they live in the forest in the jungle.

[00:29:04]See another family over there. Then Kalúa told me it was time to go to eat again.

[00:29:11]Oh la.

[00:29:15]>> Because the Tissa's wife, she was preparing some food for me. So, we had to go to their house. I really appreciate Kalúa so much because I can feel that he really wants to bring me around the village and introduce me to the people and really show me how they really live.

[00:29:35]>> I should not stop.

[00:29:36]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:41]>> He's such a character and I'm so glad that I met him today.

[00:29:54]Man, this is like a river. Oh, wow.

[00:29:58]>> Yeah.

[00:30:03]>> One second. Okay.

[00:30:05]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:14]Oh my god.

[00:30:20]I love you so much.

[00:30:27]>> Man, this is wild. But the rain definitely is not helping.

[00:30:35]>> Oh, rotty. Hello.

[00:30:38]She's warming the corny.

[00:30:40]>> And she's making the rotty. It's very pleasant.

[00:30:47]This a wife. Oh, okay. I didn't understand. Yeah. So, you have you have three three kids.

[00:30:55]>> Two three >> three boys.

[00:30:57]>> Three boy, >> one girl.

[00:30:58]>> Three boy and one girl. Wow.

[00:31:01]>> Yeah. She's a >> wife.

[00:31:03]>> Wife. No.

[00:31:05]>> Girlfriend.

[00:31:05]>> Marry.

[00:31:06]>> Marry. No. In Sri Lanka, they always ask you if you're married. And when I tell them that I'm not married, they're very surprised like why? Why you're not married? And I was explaining them especially to her that yeah Europe and America and the west now is changing a lot. You know many people are married and that's great. They have kids but there are also many families that are divorced. Many people that decide to stay single for example or they just have a boyfriend or girlfriend and decide not to marry. So in the west at the moment there are so many different situations while in Sri Lanka is still a very traditional culture and it's very important that you get married when you're young and then you have kids and if you're not married it's not so good.

[00:31:53]>> This is the va corn.

[00:31:57]>> It's really good roasted very well.

[00:32:03]You don't eat that. Only tobacco.

[00:32:06]>> This is your dinner.

[00:32:12]Sorry, man. I haven't seen him eating anything yet in many hours. Just chewing this uh leaves with tobacco. I think it also removes the appetite. Yeah, this definitely removes the appetite. It's basically a nut or they also call it beetle nut. Then they put in their mouth this white paste which is calcium hydroxide and it helps the body to absorb the active ingredients of the beetlenut. And then they eat some tobacco leaves just to add a little bit of nicotine. It will make you feel more alert, a little bit euphoric as well and it gives you energy but then the energy goes down so you need to eat it again after a few minutes or after a few hours. So we got the naan with samba and um Dal >> dal. So guys, we had the dinner. We also flew the drone and the view is incredible. I don't know if you saw the shots with the clouds and the jungle, man. There is no construction, nothing.

[00:33:13]Just raw jungle and just few houses here and there. again.

[00:33:26]>> Now it's getting dark, so we have to go back to the treehouse. So, I will uh spend the night there. Okay. Yeah, we have to do it again.

[00:33:44]Tissa said that in case it's raining, he might stay up there with me. But then he did something that kind of worried me a little bit.

[00:33:59]These are he do his own things. He cut his fruit to then chew together with a different tobacco. It's crazy how they've been doing this the entire day.

[00:34:09]And then after about 30 minutes, his wife also joined. But she also brought some food over. Some rice, some chapati, some bananas as well. And that what really made me worried because if you keep food on a treehouse, you definitely attract wild animals. You can attract elephants. You can attract bears. Guys, I'm going to be honest with you. Before I was worried about the elephants, but they told me that there is the electric fence. But now my mind is really playing with me about the leop parts because Sri Lanka is full of wild leoparts. And uh yeah, now I don't know if I can sleep here tonight, man. And I just heard that few days ago a leopard ate a monk alive.

[00:35:03]And that's the last news that I had to hear. This poor monk was even a foreigner from the Czech Republic. But he's not the only one. Even few years back another monk was eaten alive by a leopart. So now I'm worried about the elephants and also the leopart. So my mind cannot stop thinking about this.

[00:35:23]Here is Tisa guarding me.

[00:35:29]My guardian.

[00:35:50]It's 2:00 a.m. Tiza is sleeping and I cannot sleep.

[00:35:56]And all of a sudden he wakes up because he hear a sound.

[00:36:05]One elephant.

[00:36:06]>> One elephant.

[00:36:09]Oh my god.

[00:36:15]There is an elephant under the treehouse. Don't ask me how. Don't ask me why, but I'm just terrified.

[00:36:27]He's making some sounds to make the elephants go away.

[00:36:32]But at this point, I'm generally scared because if they're around here, they can attack anytime. And it's really dangerous, man.

[00:36:45]He is the forest dweller. I'm just a scared tourist. So, I'm just looking at him to understand the situation and to really feel if it's a dangerous situation or not. But I started to get really worried when he goes back to sleep and then after 5 minutes he gets up again and he keep looking with a torch around the treehouse. And he kept doing that for about 30 minutes.

[00:37:15]Going >> guys is 2:30 and we are leaving this treehouse because there are elephants around here. So, we're going back to the house of his son and we're going to sleep there because I don't want to die in the jungle of Sri Lanka.

[00:37:39]I'm going to be honest with you. The decision to leave the treehouse and walk back in the middle of the jungle back to the house was even more stupid than to sleep on the treehouse because now it's completely dark, pitch black. And if we meet an elephant here, for sure he will be scared or he will be angry with us and he's going to charge us.

[00:38:07]But we were very lucky and we made it to the house.

[00:38:12]Very cool.

[00:38:13]I ended up sleeping on the floor, but actually I didn't sleep because somehow the family kept chatting and listening to music until 5:00 a.m. And then at 7:00 a.m. Kalúa came and woke me up.

[00:38:28]>> Good morning.

[00:38:29]>> Good morning.

[00:38:39]Sleep good.

[00:38:40]>> I know.

[00:38:41]>> Nobody >> elephant coming night time. Yeah.

[00:38:46]>> No sleep. No.

[00:38:47]>> No sleep. You no sleep?

[00:38:49]>> No.

[00:38:50]>> Elephant coming. Oh.

[00:38:54]>> How many elephants?

[00:38:56]>> Five.

[00:38:56]>> Five.

[00:38:58]Oh.

[00:39:00]Holy guys. Did you just hear that?

[00:39:04]So, koala that lives on the other side just behind here in another area just told me that he didn't sleep because five elephants were there last night and he couldn't sleep and he had to stay awake all night to like kind of kick them out, which you can't. So these indigenous guys kept telling me yesterday all day like don't worry don't worry you can sleep here there are electric fences everywhere you can sleep well you can sleep in the treehouse and then last night all of them were surrounded by elephants and thank god at 2:00 a.m. 2:30 I decided to leave and come inside the house. Otherwise, maybe I wouldn't be here today.

[00:39:52]>> Breakfast.

[00:39:53]Breakfast.

[00:39:57]7 in the morning. Already starting to chew the leaf.

[00:40:06]>> Toothpaste.

[00:40:09]>> Yeah. Toothpaste.

[00:40:12]Thank you so much.

[00:40:15]Thank you.

[00:40:21]I think that's why last night the elephant came because of the banana.

[00:40:30]>> All right, guys. It's time to leave. I think I'm going to make my way to Ella.

[00:40:35]It's been a wonderful experience. Very unique, very fascinating. I've learned a lot and I didn't expect to find such a reality in Sri Lanka. I hope you enjoy.

[00:40:45]Let me know in the comments down below what do you think. Share your comments, share your opinion. I'm going to say goodbye to Kalúa. Now going to jump for my tuk tuk and continue the journey in Sri Lanka. I feel very blessed because the Va tribe especially Kalúa and Tissa and his family as well. They really welcome me. They were really happy to show me around and introduce me to the village. They really took very good care of me and I'm really grateful.

[00:41:14]>> Brother Kalua, thank you so much for everything.

[00:41:17]Hondaay, >> thank you. Hope to see you again next time.

[00:41:22]>> Next time.

[00:41:27]I really hope the Va community will last long and they will not disappear because they are really amazing people, very kind, very sweet, very hospitable and their culture and tradition is really unique and special. Thank you so much for watching this video and I will see you in the next one. Bye-bye.