Extreme Luxury Hotel in Sri Lanka (Shangri-La Hambantota)
so there's always a lifeguard on duty here on duty awesome only at this pool or at the other pool every pool sir every pool has a life and also Beach wow even on the beach there's a lifeguard yes sir you work in Paradise yeah uh when I step through this land I feel wow because this if this is not my U actually I I I feel like this is my second home sir how much is that one how expensive are those 1,000 1,000 1,000 this one oh man should I buy it matter no I will buy it for you this is why Sri Lankan food is amazing look at all of these spices look at all of this what's up everybody welcome back to another beautiful day here on the island of Sri Lanka today I'm talking to you guys from the southern region a city known as Hamot TOA and today I'm going to be showing you guys what an extreme luxury family resort looks like here in Sri Lanka now right now I'm staying at the Shangri La hota and this property is actually over 400 acres and they have so many activities it's a place that you can come and literally um hide away in your own little Oasis and relax especially after a long Excursion from one of the many different national parks here in the area yala National Park is only about an hour drive and Udu W is only about 2 hours from this area which makes it a great stopping point when coming to experience some of the best nature that Sri Lanka has to offer now these Shangri La habant tonta is a beachfront property they actually have three swimming pools they got a sunset pool that is actually adults only then they have a Lagoon pool which welcomes everybody and of course a children's area which is super convenient especially if you're planning on coming here as a family now this here is the main lobby area this is where you're greeted now when you first arrive you actually light a traditional Sri Lankan torch um that blesses your visit and you also spend a bit of time uh drinking your welcome drinks which are amazing with this incredible View and the staff here are lovely so today I'm going to show you guys around this property show you guys exactly why I recommend um experiencing some extreme luxury here in Sri Lanka because there's not many places in the world where you can find the hospitality that you can find in Sri Lanka so this here is the main lobby area super beautiful a lot of places to sit down Lounge around that's the front desk and all of the staff here are just incredible super lovely people and then over in this direction I'll show you guys the amazing view of the beach in the courtyard area before we make it on in to the room and I give you guys a little room tour but seriously from the moment I've arrived I have just been blown away this place is gorgeous so this here is what the Courtyard area looks like that's the Lagoon pool I was telling you guys about and there's actually four different restaurants and cafes here on this property as well so plenty of places to um hang out and definitely a place you can easily spend a week now one thing I've come to learn come to realize after traveling around the world and staying in uh different Shangri laws is that Shangri La unlike many other hotel chains around the world the Shangri La itself Prides itself on being an experience on its own and no this isn't sponsored I was just um gifted two nights to come on out here and enjoy this place and I figured why not let me share this experience with you guys because it is truly a masterpiece of a hotel so um yeah let's start adventuring let's see what today has in store for us and first let me show you guys the room so we're going to kick off this video by of course giving you a room tour this here is the suite it's actually a family suite at Shang hant and I have a feeling you guys are going to be super impressed because I I think this is by far one of the most beautiful hotel rooms I've ever had the opportunity to stay in so as soon as you walk in you have this big open space that actually serves as like a common room SL dining room SL living room you have a big beautiful table with some fresh bananas I love the details every shangry law that you ever visit around the world they always have the detail spots on you got beautiful Decor that makes you feel right at home and then over here we have like the living room space you got a couch beautiful little um elephant Decor above on the headboard over here we have a bunch of snacks they actually left us some traditional Sri Lankan treats as well as some cookies and a mix of chocolates walnuts and strawberries now what I really love about this living room is the swinging chair oh imagine waking up on here just looking at the sunset or Sunrise that's amazing that's definitely what I'm doing while I'm here now over in this direction we have a patio area that is actually pretty decent size I mean it goes from the living room area over to the bedroom so you can literally leave um from whichever door and enjoy the nice fresh air out right out front we have the kids pool /water park they actually have water slides um some other like water activities this way over here they have a trapes and what you see out into the distance is actually the beach now there's a much larger pool over um behind the palm trees as well but I'll show you guys that here in a little bit now this is super cool I can just close this door and walk straight into the bedroom follow me let me show you guys what the room is looking like so this here is the bedroom in the Suites and let me just tell you guys it is nothing short of perfect we got a nice little work desk that I'm definitely going to use later because I actually booked the Shangri La because they have some of the best internet in Sri Lanka so if you're one of those people that works from home or uh runs an online business you need to stay in a place like this where you're super comfortable where you got highspeed internet and of course um where you feel right at home we also have a little couch area over here we got a California KingSize bed which is just amazing and look at the details guys this is what I'm talking about shangry La details and elephant's house I've never seen that anywhere else in the world and seriously Shang La team if you guys are watching this please send someone to my room to teach me how to do this because I need to do that at home that looks amazing best towel presentation I've ever seen now over in this direction we have a television a bunch of storage space in here we got coffees teas sugars let's actually see what's up here uh some cups over here here we got a mini fridge that actually comes stocked up with Lion beer some Sprite soft drinks Waters and then over here we have a kettle and yeah just a kettle so everything you need everything you need to F right at home for a few days and I love how they just left water absolutely everywhere water bottles by the um or on the bedst stands is always a must you know you wake up in the middle of the night and you need that water that's where you can find it now in here we have the walk-in closet now look at this place guys it just it's cozy it's nice I need a closet like this at home you got um all kinds of storage space a safe they even give you flip flops to use for the pool or the showers and then if we actually walk in here we have the bathroom super modern toilet incredible shower a hisen her sink which comes with all the goods you need you got toothpaste toothbrush brush razors a comb cotton um Buds and of course some special sealon soap and over in this direction we have a bathtub which looks amazing and look they actually included bath salts for a nice hot bath that we'll take later on today actually those smell incredible and what is this oh Al loofah first time I've ever received the loofah in a hotel room but yeah guys this is what the suite looks like in the Shangri La um if you guys want to experience something like this I definitely recommend to look into a shangry lot in your area wherever you are they have over 150 locations around the world I believe it's 150 don't quote me on that but I was doing a little bit of research before coming on out here because I've made it a goal for myself to visit Shangri La all around the world it's always such a unique experience and you see why I enjoy staying in a shanga for a few nights so uh this location here at the Hanta is a must visit when in Sri Lanka especially if you're coming here for a special occasion like a honeymoon or um you know you're about to actually elope to your partner what better place than uh this beautiful facility I mean doesn't get much better than this all right I'm going to get freshened up and then I'll see you guys downstairs for lunch so right now we're about to have some lunch and I'm actually eating right in front of this beautiful Golf Course here um today now this golf course is actually in 18 hole golf course but they actually have um nine hole rounds and 18 hole rounds I'm not much of a golfer so I can't tell you um anything special about golf but I can tell you that this course is amazing it's so beautiful there's actually peacocks running around the entire uh premisis and look at the palm trees Sri Lankan Palms just absolutely beautiful this hotel is seriously an oasis it's a paradise and a great um place to come and relax now the restaurant we're actually eating at is right here this is the Ula Clubhouse and bar and you obviously get amazing views of the clubhouse while you're out here or I mean the golf course while you're out here and it simply can't get better than this guys now um we're actually going to go golfing for the very first time in my life here in the next few days so I'll be sharing that experience with you guys as well but this here is the restaurant and what I love about this place is that man the staff is so welcoming so warm and the furniture is incredibly comfortable now we're actually sitting right here um glattus is enjoying her nice little mocktail what did you end up drinking or ordering Asian lemonade Asian lemonade and what are you drinking over there drinking a nice little lion you know lion logger this here is the Sri Lankan beer and it's one of my favorites now they just brought out this appetizer for us um I forgot the name of it but the presentation looks incredible we got two different kinds of M mustards olive oil and yeah some other toppings but man looks amazing I just told them that I'm filming so they're over here like on timeout trying not to eat it but inside of the restaurants they got a pool table all kinds of places to lounge around I can imagine this is a great uh place to come into and you know enjoy the game watch some crickets and then over and this direction there's all kinds of uh tables we got the bar area amazing staff thank you guys so much another television and the bar of course is fully loaded super beautiful I mean look at this place guys piano over here I can imagine they probably have some live music no seriously such an incredible incredible hotel and only uh one out of four restaurants so far so I'm excited to dabble in between all of them over the course course of the next few days but for now you know what bone Appetit let's dive on in and guys this is only the appetizer we still got our main courses on the way now they have all kinds of steak and seafood and um fancy dishes but guess what I ordered the same thing I always order a burger a burger a bacon cheeseburger so that's what I ordered lattice has um a steak sandwich on the way you know we like we like what we like so um I'll show you guys that once it comes on out but this view this view is priceless so the main course has just made it out and this is what we're playing with guys we got the bacon cheeseburger with the fried egg looks amazing we got some truffle fries and I actually just ran outside because there was a peacock running around and man the peacocks are so beautiful the colors that they have are just extremely vibrant and there's not any other place in the world that I've ever been to personally where I have seen wild peacocks every time I I've ever seen them growing up they've always been at a zoo or In Like A or a statue but never a real one just running around in its natural habitat but here in Sri Lanka they're everywhere and at the Shangri La habant uh facility they are found everywhere because of the huge golf course there's just so much green space and um one of the um staff members that I actually talked to you a few minutes ago said that they actually sleep on top of the coconut palms so I got to come out here in the middle of the night and just try and find some of those because I would die if I see a peacock just hanging up at the the very top of some of these Palms but yeah uh I'm going to enjoy my meal and then we're actually going to head off on some little excursions around the property I believe we're going to go on a bike ride we're going to do some archery and we're also going to um oh I forgot what's next oh we're also going to go into like uh one of their I don't even know what you call them like an obstacle course that they have here on this facility so I'm excited definitely a experience that you have to have when in Sri Lanka food was beyond amazing all I am is just more excited now for the rest of the meals that we're going to be having here at this incredible Hotel so this is the first floor here and I want to actually show you guys this area because it's very beautiful now there's all kinds of plants around the facilities that are native to Shri Lanka that is like the kids Water Park area that I actually showed you guys from the hotel then over in this direction there is actually the gym that's a fully equipped gym they have everything inside that's actually where gladers and Andrew are walking into and not to work out we're actually here because we're going to head out with our guide to go and do some bike riding some archery and what else are we doing today we have a ro course activity oh okay then uh in the morning 11:30 every day the we call Aqua Fitness Arabic exercises sir oh cool and uh we have uh 24 hours access for the pool table and table tennis and that's over in the other side so that's like the fun stuff can I go check that out yes it yeah let me go check that out so this here is like the recreational Lounge so the Gym's over in this Direction that's the health club and the recreational Lounge is here and they got man table tennis pool cornhole this is glattus actually loves this game cornhole that's amazing and right outside this area they even got games for kids look at this that's what I love about this hotel they actually have stuff for people of all ages PS you guys have PS4 in here no way let's go check this out so you guys got PlayStation in here man this hotel has it all in here yes wow so this is like the game room yeah so you can watch movies play Playstation ice hockey yeah hockey air hockey and uh cool and this is Cameroon right this game yeah cam sir C Cameron kamam cam kamam yes oh okay I've never played that before but it's popular in Sri Lanka yes very people love people love this game in Sri Lanka wow thank you so much sir thank you for the tour I'm excited to go out with you you're going to be taking us to go do the archery right yes of course sir awesome cool thank you sir sir later on today we'll come and play air hockey okay sir I don't yeah no need to turn it on now cuz yeah I need to some keeps playing and they they unplug it yeah oh they broke the plug look I need to piix okay no worries no worries you can imagine there's always um you know kids running around and kids like to touch everything I was that kid that broke everything so uh my brothers were always like Mom take Chris out of the room because I always broke everything all right time to do some activities so what makes this place super unique too is that here they have a clinic and the clinic actually has a 24-hour nurse on the property at all times and then over in this direction they have a kids club that's open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. so you can leave the kids here hello how are you guys you can leave the kids in here while you explore um the shanga oh they're they're playing activities huh wow this is amazing though how are you guys can I have little look yes wow oh no shoes no shoes I'm so sorry let me put the shoes away oh this is Halloween dancing yes prac wow this is awesome that's that's super cool so yeah all kinds of ball places oh are you guys zombies Halloween zombies Halloween zombies oh I'm scared okay I'm getting on out of here enjoy your day wow little drawing station for art very nice I love how um it's such a familyfriendly resort actually that's one of the things that the shangu LA Prides itself on um I've come to realize is that it's a very familyfriendly Resort but also a great place for Honeymooners for people of all ages to come out here and have a good time you can even come out here with your brother and just drink beers by the pool why not or just leave your brother here playing okay yeah yeah you stay you stay you stay inside there that's what we used to do when we were when we go to Vegas but now now he's he's up there he's up there he's 21 now so it's time for him to hang out with the big boys and big girls all right let's go do some activities I'm excited I'm excited too so the first place we're going to walk on over to is the archery course but I want to show you guys a little bit around uh the facilities of course we're going to jump on into the swimming pool here in a little bit but for now um let's go on a little tour wow you guys have beach chairs Beach beds I guess you can call them pool beds and this pool is amazing this is the Lagoon pool sir this is L po sir wow and this one's open until what time in the morning 8 to uh evening 800 a.m. sir 8 to 88 a.m. 8 to 8 cool so you can hang out here pretty much any time of the any time of the day this pool looks amazing and there's a lifeguard on duty at all times another little restaurant here actually sir what is the name of this restaurant V called This is bjun Hala oh bonj Hala I think that's where we signed up for dinner for tonight yes okay cool how's it going sir so there's always a lifeguard on duty here on duty awesome only at this pool or at the other pool every pool sir every pool has a life also Beach wow even on the beach there's a lifeguard yes sir wow that's amazing I love that you guys um care about safety because sometimes I overlook safety but you got to have people like them around because CU then they keep they keep their eyes on you wow this place is awesome oh and there's another restaurant here as well called This is s s restaurant s restaurant yes sir and and it has a rooftop bar yeah that's a we call demon Deon bar and also the beverage snacks and the liquor wow there's another uh restaurant and also we we can get the dinner from this restaurant from the Sea restaurant Southeast Asian food wow okay that's amazing so you can't get bored here you can literally spend a week here and have dinner at every different restaurant every night uh no actually sir the we call Gul shop G yeah sir and UHA and S and AD old day diary we call oh okay okay so you can mix it up throughout your week yes this is the we call the Rope course area oh this is the Rope course oh yeah you guys got like some Sky Bridges dangling Bridges oh that's awesome are you guys up for that yeah I think I'm up for that yeah let's do that are we doing this today uh of course okay I'm totally up for this so yeah these here are rope courses I actually did this type of stuff when I was in the Army and let me just tell you guys I was spooked out because it was definitely a lot higher and it made me push my limits but this here this doesn't look too bad at all not bad at all how high is this sir so actually this is uh nearly 10 m it's it's nearly 10 m 10 m yes sir oh not too bad though huh okay and uh it's include uh 14 activities 14 activities yes sir okay well um should we do this or should we do archery first sir uh now he's trying to close because of the Thunder and it will be he no worries we'll do it next time so tomorrow morning in the 900 a.m. 9 so tomorrow you be well tomorrow morning we got some activities we're going to the fish market to pick out our own food we we'll save it for next time or maybe tomorrow evening tomorrow evening sir it's better okay if it not rain maybe yeah because you can never predict the weather so yeah he said uh yeah it's tomorrow works no today today also because uh it's not rain until I don't know about tomorrow what I'll let him go ahead and close I don't want to take up his time let's go do archery sure sir yeah thank you I don't want to take up your time take care sir we'll see you tomorrow okay okay all right take care enjoy your night you know what I think he's right here in Sri Lanka the weather can be kind of crazy sometimes it can be super warm and hot and then out of nowhere the thunderstorm comes so it's better to be safe and we'll participate with this a little later on but man look at this it is awesome do a lot of the clients that come here love doing this yes sir yeah it's super fun I can imagine with kids as well yes from uh 80 above kids this is includ oh so eight years and eight years and older can do this wow they even have the bike on the zipline that is cool yeah we should definitely do this guys look there is a bike yeah you know fun fact about glattus she actually didn't learn how to ride a bike until she was a lot older huh yeah like 23 23 but now she loves bikes she absolutely loves them but yeah look that's a bicycle how awesome is that I hope um through the camera you guys can truly grasp how beautiful this place is because to the eye it is Paradise it is a paradise here how does it feel working in Paradise yes you you work in Paradise yeah uh when I step through this land I feel wow because this if this is not my uh uh actually I I I feel like this is my second home sir yeah it's it's it's feel to me because this is very Fortune land so very Fortune land yeah and all of the staff I've realized so far is like super everybody feels like they're at home here yes and that's beautiful we also respect this property sir yeah you got to respect this beautiful property so this here is a sunset pool hey how's it going sir hello wow this the sunset pool looks amazing what time does the sunset pool close uh the weekends we close until 8 we open until 8 8 wow that is beautiful I think I'm coming here is this the one that's adults only yeah this is adults only oh nice so for all of you guys watching this is where you can come and get your quiet time away from the kids nice place right oh man what a gorgeous place so is this the access to the beach as well yes sir is the water safe to swim in here um unfortunately it's very rough huh yeah it looks rough that's why we we try always keep the light guard be there okay and also red flag and a red flag which red flag means no swimming yeah that's why we have to be buol set yeah so you don't have to go in there yeah okay I agree with that you got to be smart guys you don't go into crazy Waters especially if there's a red flag up don't do it cool where man beautiful place beautiful place okay following you yes now we'll head on this wayer archery course all right well you know what guys I won't bore you too much um look at this it's amazing I'm not going to bore you with a nice long walk I kind of want to just enjoy myself and soak this all in but I'll see you guys over at the archery course but um how do you feel so far walking around this property gladus cuz you've stayed at a lot of hotels relax this reminds me the hotel at brunai the brunai hotel huh it actually looks a lot like the Empire yeah the Empire Hotel it's very relaxing place like there's no noises but nature noises yeah you hear the waves you hear the thunder when we were sitting at the restaurant you could hear the peacocks I didn't even know peacocks made noises I know that's pretty dumb to think but I didn't know they made noises and peacocks they make like a I don't know almost like like the only noise I know about a bird is Kaaka but it definitely didn't sound like that what did it sound like what did the peacock sound like they sound like a they sound like cat like meow oh oh yeah that's what it sounds like yeah amazing you know you know yeah he hears them every day oh and this is what is an artisan Village what is here this is um actually we call AR and this is traditional Village okay there uh some artist uh they they drawing the painting and do some uh the wooden things uh we call lck a and the poetries potes wow okay so like they do a bunch of potteries and you can come in here and purchase these items yes sir of course wow this is awesome actually glattus was looking at these masks earlier where's glattus love them so we can actually make these with them no or you watch them make them you can try sometimes you can try uh definitely but you can buy sir you can buy you can buy yeah cool we'll come back here um probably on our last dat to make sure to grab some souvenirs why not wow I love that you guys have places to hang out everywhere all kinds of swings I think I'm going to come sit over here and I don't want any of you guys to bother me all right I'm just going to come sit right here leave my phone upstairs and just listen to the waves I'm going to be on my own mini Bungalow reading yeah glad is Happy places with the book and listening to the sounds um no we could go to the archery first yeah because I'm scared it's going to rain I'd rather do the archery yeah yeah we'll come back and explore all of this stuff later on guys but right now it's rainy season in Sri Lanka you got to make the most of the dryness when it's dry you got to do everything yeah and then when it's rain you can go shopping oh you guys have volleyball as well yeah volleyball and cricket and also cricket and soccer yeah football football what am I saying soccer all right time to do a little bit of little bit of archery here hello sir this is my arer animator oh you're the archery Master awesome how are you I'm good sir how about you sir doing great doing great excited to do this I haven't done archery since I was a kid they've never done it first time you like to do that yeah please of course and you know what I'll tell you guys something I grew up going to the YMCA summer camp when I was a kid and I did archery but it was never in a place like this this is Paradise we're about to take some notes from the experts right now oh man great great shots bro I saw that I saw that I I don't think I'm going to be any better okay um no we'll let the lady go first okay with the left uh this is actually right right hand B mam very what right hand B ah right yeah okay okay okay right time perfect should I do it here no like this yeah you need to pull more back and with the strength SP hard to pull okay can you show to me once and then I do it they love me okay put to this whole M ah okay you strs then use your to and full B you got this you got got this you got to pull hard hard hard watch out with the instructor okay okay okay I would step away if I were you sir oh there you go that was a good shot am man you're a natural oh my God I warn to do this okay next one for you that one's probably easier huh okay oh they're walking glattus up a little bit closer why you're getting special treatments far you got to start baby steps glattus baby steps so you can the here how many years have you been shooting the B for sir actually I am the not the actually he's on off today oh he's off just you're just doing it you're just doing it all right I like that I appreciate that you can use your three fingertips one is up and two is down then it this much don't it your hand okay and uh take the from this V shape release okay okay let's try let's try I think you got this I think you got this oh that one does look easier to pull back huh little bit more pull back a little bit more there you go oh nice and she went to go further look at her 10 points for me 10 points for me all right now it's my turn I'm going to show you how it's done hold on left mine there all right let's see where mine ends up what do you mean leave yours there it didn't hit the target I mean leave yeah all right all right so you want to keep it there in the middle aim watch this first first time how do you do it uh just ch body straight okay turn your oh okay okay okay all right watch this first time Bullseye first time Bullseye all right straight I knew it I think there's something wrong with the bow that's why that's why I told them leave mine there because look I went farther I went how do I say that let me redeem myself real quick if you redeem I need to redeem too okay all right I'm going to let you redeem after this you guys leave me in the comments section let me know who's better who got better it's all about the form it's not about where the arrow goes all right look at this uhhuh oh ah you're natural too it's a lot harder than it looks all right it's a lot harder than Alex you know let me redeem last one last one and then Andrew I did no good Andrew did good glattus did good thank you so much awesome instructor but you can't teach someone who has no skill sets so I'm leaving see you tomorrow bro for a bike ride okay all right tomorrow we're doing a bike ride around the the premises um as I mentioned this hotel actually not sure if I mentioned it yet but this hotel is sitting on 400 Acres so there's all kinds of activities that you can do around the premises of this place and bike riding is one of them so tomorrow we'll go on a bike ride maybe visit the um Artisan area and of course do the high ropes course but for now swimming pool I'm the archery Champion between it's a tough one they both did good you guys both hit board all right I am better all right see me in ping pong all right see me in ping pong see you there right now I think we have to throw that in the Vlog too the ping pong see you there are you guys debating on who's Ping Pong Champion that's cuz I was beating her before we had to leave it was 6'2 62 oh man that's a terrible loss and I'll see you at ice hockey because I'm I'm way better than you in ice hockey say that's what you say or air hockey I guess you can call it all right we're going to go upstairs thr on the swimming shorts and it's time to chill by the pool so we decided to jump into the kitty pool first and here's where the water slides are can you believe there's water slides surrounded with elephants I mean this place is beautiful guys lifeguard on duty there's also a little play area down there this reminds me of uh Soak City our Raging Waters uh those are the water parks that we have where I'm from and Andrew's heading up to the water side let's go woo and look at these elephants how awesome is this woo and the water's so nice oh yeah that feels so good Andrew's coming down he's coming down he's coming in hot I don't think Andrew slides much on that I think we're too heavy you got to be little kids huh yeah we're too heavy we can't be going down the water slides look at Andrew it's still fun though huh yeah too big we're definitely too big for this this is the kids pool it's not too deep at all but it's nice that there's options like yeah look I'm sitting down and I'm sticking above the water so they have the uh Sunset pool and then the Lagoon which are a lot bigger we'll probably head over there right now but man this water feels amazing so nice and I love that they got a little bed right here so you can lay there and you know watch your kids while they're swimming or do what glattus is doing and watch the big kids go swimming what a place though had an amazing time at the pool watching the sunset and now it's time to partake in the buffet the shanga is famously known for its Hospitality but they have some of the best buffets in all of their locations and here in Sri Lanka um at the Columbo location has been one of the best buffets of my lifetime in a hotel they had food from absolutely uh every part of the world and the selection was just unbelievable so I have a feeling that here in hont it is not going to disappoint also and man this facility is just so beautiful at night the pools are very well lit um there's all kinds of lights that light up the trails and man I just laid in the bed for a little bit after the bath and let me just tell you guys it is so cozy such a nice room such a nice hotel and seriously an experience that all of you guys need to have when in Sri Lanka you know Sri Lanka has a lot of uh Luxury Resorts and Villas I filmed the luxury Villa that I actually stayed in inell Gama um on my last trip that's also here on the channel but nothing compares to staying at a five-star Resort and having five-star quality [Music] service so this here is the noodle bar and you can actually choose your noodles all the different toppings they got beef chicken seafood all the different sauces and then this gentleman back here actually dips them in the broth of your choice they got chicken broth tum yum broth and vegetable broth and you can actually pick out any of the vegetable top toppings that go on in inside as well and there goes the soy sauce that's where the magic happens no I love soy sauce thank you so much sir I appreciate that big time time thank you and then you got this beautiful lady here making egg Hoppers actually plain Hoppers as well Hoppers are incredible and yeah look there's more little toppings that you can actually throw on um to your to your dishes like the noodles these are Sri Lankan com condiments the only one I know by hand is the mango chutney always a great selection they even got pork over here but of course it's separated because not everybody eats pork and then if we actually walk over in this direction here's the dessert area got all the spooky treats they got something for everybody look they got brownies well that's a chocolate moist cake some caramel cakes Blackberry panacota wow that sounds awesome might have to try that later on a nice little Halloween spooky cake and then over in this direction they got the ice cream bar but over in those shelves or in the pots over in that direction they have um a wide selection of typical Sri Lankan dishes as well as as Western dishes then over here you actually have a nice little salad selection which I'll be dabbling in here in a minute but yeah everything about this Buffet is pretty spots on good morning guys and it is the next day now here at the Shangri La and right now we're actually heading off with the chef to the local market at the Shangri lot they actually have all kinds of different excursions and one of the excursions that you can do is head off to a local um fish market with the lead Chef to go out and use your um ingredients for your lunch that you're going to eat later on today so I have no idea what we're going to find at the fish market obviously some nice Seafood a great selection and I have a feeling that the meal that we're going to prepare later on together that's the best part about this excursion is that you get to come back and then learn how to prepare your own typical Sri Lankan dish with the chef now they actually gave us two options to choose whether we wanted a western meal or a Sri Lankan meal and of course glattus and I we're going in Sri Lankan baby when you're in Sri Lanka you got to go to Sri Lankan so I just love how um the Shangri law has all of these excursions to offer you that way if you're planning on coming out here you know we're obviously traveling around traveling around the island in a Tuk Tuk um doing a lot of uh local sight scene but there's obviously a large mix of people that come to Sri Lanka and there's also a large majority of people that are coming and they simply just want to relax they don't want to do a whole lot they don't want to drive around the whole country and took took and be moving hotels every single day so if you're um coming to escape your busy life at home you can relax on shanga but still gets a nice um local experience whenever you feel like leaving the leaving the resort so that's what we're doing right now it's super beautiful out today doesn't look like there's any sign of rain but that could change very fast here in Sri Lanka some days it's extremely sunny and then within 30 minutes it starts pouring but um I love both sides to be honest and the rain is very relaxing so um we only have about how long's the drive Chef um we have like 15 15 minutes oh very close Okay so we got a 15-minute drive I'll see you guys um at at the first location so we're arriving to the beach now and these are where all the local fisherman boats pull off into the water with their daily fresh catch good morning all right so we're out on the beach now good morning oh baby Lobster wow wow that's a baby that's very nice beautiful how much is that one how expensive are those 1,000 1,000 this one oh man should I buy it doesn't matter no I will buy it for you let me buy it let me buy it I will why not let's take a little baby Lobster home I never seen a lobster that size that a baby Lobster only three bucks not bad yeah it has to be like a little chicken nuggets okay this place is awesome I mean look at this good morning how are you guys are you guys going out right now or you came back yeah yeah you're about to go line fishing yes good luck today wow this is awesome to see what an experience hello good morning hello good morning how are you I'm fine are you doing great are you from I'm from the United States American American yeah how are you guys are you guys going out right now or you just came back I how we going to again okay are you coming maybe maybe in a few days I come back and I go with you guys you go every day at this time yeah yeah yeah this month going to every day how many hours you stay out uh maybe 1 hour oh very fast very fast yeah okay I'll keep that in mind maybe um maybe tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow I you need to come in 5:30 in the morning 5:30 in the morning right here on this beach yeah okay what's your name I'm lakar lakar and this is your boat no it's a oh your boat very nice nice to meet you maybe I'll come back then tomorrow okay tomorrow yeah all right thank you bro okay all right thank you man awesome what a great little experience huh oh shf is that is that what we're taking back oh I'm stepping on all kinds of crabs yeah um I think he going to give us all okay yeah they going to be fine for another dish awesome yeah I love that thank you sir it's so fresh it's fresh out the water yeah so Chef just brought back these big lobsters and look at this one it's full of eggs so that that should be having a lot more baby lobsters but now it's going to be lunch huh yeah now it's lunch are we taking these big ones too yes definitely we so we got a couple small ones that we're going to make grilled I have a feeling we're going to prepare them in different ways right yes yes definitely awesome maybe one is Sri Lan then one is blue cool very nice I love that um even the big hotels the big chains like Shan gas still come out and support the local economy they buy their fish and lobsters from the local fisherman that is a beautiful thing to see and man this coastline is just impressive it is beautiful I can't say I would swim in this water it looks pretty rough but that's the shanga wow we're not far beautiful place all right we got our lobsters so this is the local market of hant oh alant so we just made it to the local markets and um Chef was just telling us that this is where we're going to find all of the produce right the vegetables the vegetables the spices and the fruits the spices and the fruits I don't even want to know what how many spices you guys have in the back of the of your kitchen at the shanga because you guys prepare food for hundreds of people every day definitely it's going to be a lots of spices and lots of different flavors in there okay so awesome thank you well this is beautiful hello how are you wow nice Market hello sir we're going to go this way okay oh I love the way local market smells always so fresh so good I'll follow you I'll follow you sir fresh green chili this is this is the Old Spice so that's what we'll be using yeah we going juice in everything in Sri Lanka you got to have the spice yeah we got two like uh we got one one with dce and one with powder okay and fish s the fish it's like all all coming from the where we went before okay so they are coming from there and get the curry leaves those are Curry leaves I was wondering what they were selling that on the side of the road in in Ella wow this is the best item that to get flavor in the curries so it give so many Aromas from the from the leaves you will just match it wow right away yeah now along with the curry leaves they also have all kinds of onions potatoes squash over here we got some jack fruits some green beans um yams Yuka coconuts I love these local experiences and it's awesome that this hotel um provides that experience because well you know there's a lot of lot of people that let's be honest there's a lot of people out there that don't feel super comfortable heading out into local areas that they don't know on their own and this allows you to you know break that ice break that barrier and get on out there and explore a bit more than you would probably usually explore this is amazing snake guard what is that it's snake guard snake guard yeah wow is this like Our Roots uh it's grown underground no no no it's it's growing in the it's hanging hanging hanging hanging on Vines wow and what are we going to do with this we're going to make a salad with us wow Sal it looks like a cucumber kind of yeah is that how it looks inside inside does nothing we break it oh oh wow okay very nice I'm excited about this I've never seen that before what is this sir uh dumble up it's a kind of vegetable in yes beans family we have uh inside we we see the beans there oh yeah like green beans yes oh okay very nice very nice wow interesting a lot of fruits and veggies um that you can only find in Sri Lanka it's very nice to see I don't know maybe you can find this elsewhere I've never seen it anywhere else in the world though look how how she does the um the Wayne of the vegetables that is super nice nowadays where we live everything's electric you know it's nice to see these uh skills coriander yeah oh we love coriander we're Latino we use that for everything we call it cilantro cilantro uhhuh grandma go crazy with this one see we got all of our ingredients and even bought ourselves a clay pot that we're going to be cooking inside of this has been an unreal experience thank you chef and man it's so nice going into a local market and seen the proper way to pick out ingredients every time I walk into a market I just grab anything and throw it in the basket but Chef was like really looking at the at the fruits smelling them he knew exactly what to look for that that shows how much expertise you have get now we get some experience with that now next time when you go there so you can choose your own things yeah or I can just pretend like I know what I'm doing I'm like all right time to get into the kitchen we'll make our way back now we have everything that what we bought today so Chef going to cook Sri Lankan ambul and salad with a snake God and a crab Curry and uh curry with the lobster wow the other lster I'm going to bring tonight the squirt one with the S thank you so much oh so that's what we're going to use later on tonight for our special dinner otherwise it's going to be too much and you will enjoy it okay awesome wow this is amazing seeing you know everything that we we went out on a hunt for watching the chef at work and now we see it all right here right in front of us so these are those big long bean things that we were looking at wow and look at this Sri Lankan food this is why Sri Lankan food is amazing look at all of these spices look at all of this amazing see I'm the type of person that when I cook some chicken I put it in a pot and then I just put salt on it and then and that's how I eat it it tastes like nothing you know but this is amazing and here's the pot that we just purchased this should be for the F this traditional he going to okay use the S Lan the traditional way the food is finished and look at this masterpiece now I wish I could say I did a lot but you know I just kind of move vegetables around these people are experts and they do everything extremely fast if I tried to do one of these dishes on my own I would spend four or five hours copying a Google recipe trying to figure that out but here is our I can't say the name right fish ulot I keep saying ambulat I don't know their proper name but this here is the lobster dish we made the potato potato Tempo potato Tempo the spicy crap Curry we got some rice and then this here is the special tea salad s snake snake goat snake goat snake goats and then the coconut chutney oh man this is a feast thank you guys so much um I appreciate them so much they were super see you later on they were super kind to us super nice and man this food looks incredible so we're going to enjoy this now probably order a round of beers and yeah bonut petites what a great experience all right well today has been unbelievable tonight is going to be even better I'll see you guys there because we got a very special dinner plan for you guys we're going to enjoy some pool time now don't think we're just eating all day long but we're going to enjoy some pool time now we got about 6 hours until dinner I don't even know how I'm going to make it to dinner with all this food to be honest but um great experience figure out a way to make it to dinner I'll figure it out too you're going to figure it out of course of course all right see you guys in a little bit now unfortunately visiting Sri Lanka during the rainy season can be tough because well it rains and it ended up raining the entire rest of the day and even the following day so the rest of our time at the shangry LA we spent pretty much inside of the room hanging out we did visit the spa and had a couple spa treatments but more than anything guys we just got some much needed relaxation time and let me just tell you this is probably one of the best hotels on this planet it is incredible and it is a place that everyone must visit all right see you guys on the next one you were always smarter I was the one to take a look
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