We love travelling and realise how fortunate we are... but sometimes we get a bit overwhelmed by sightseeing. Kandy was the ancient capital of Sri Lanka, but we decided to take things easy there 🇱🇰♥️ We spent an awesome 7 weeks travelling in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Here's our Sri Lanka series: ruclips.net/p/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF There will be more videos to come from this amazing country so remember to SUBSCRIBE & tap NOTIFY!! 👍
Hello Geeta. Thank you so much for your lovely comment 🙏🤗 We stayed in different places in the 3 different times we were in Kandy. I'll go back through Booking dot com and will add a link to the best property in the Pinned Comment. Please remind me in case I forget 😊🙏 ~ Mandy
Hi Guys I attended middle school Trinity college in Kandy part of the Anglican church. The Principal and the chaplain were Englishman during my time .The chapel is a fine piece of architecture and the painting done by George Keyt, on top of a hill overlooking Kandy. Back in the day we had steam engines pulling the trains needing two to get over the Kadugannawe pass to get to Kandy from Colombo. When I got home my face was full of soot. Mandy I hope you are keeping well Love from Florida
Hello Marlon 👋 It's so lovely to hear your stories about life in Sri Lanka. We actually stayed near Trinity College the second time we were in Kandy... up from the police dog training centre. I am well, and woyld like to thank you so much for asking 🙏🤗♥️ ~ Mandy
Hello Steve 👋 Sri Lanka is an awesome country - it is a wonderful place to visit, and we spent an excellent 7 weeks travelling there. We are so pleased you are enjoying these videos of our adventures, and we really appreciate your wonderful feedback and comments 🙏🤗😍
That's so cool, Cindy. The irony is that despite Lee not being too fond of Kandy, we ended up going back 2 more times because of the breast cancer diagnosis! The universe works in mysterious ways ✨️ ~ Mandy
@@RanjithLatha-y6u Thank you so much, Ranjith 🙏🤗. We had an amazing 7 weeks in Sri Lanka, and have many other videos in our Sri Lanka playlist. We hope you enjoy them: Sri Lanka Travel 🇱🇰♥️: ruclips.net/p/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF
Lovely video as always! Chandala was the lowest caste ( like ‘untouchables’ in India I think). Those triangles in the wall around the lake were used to put coconut oil lamps. The wall is supposed to represent waves. The lake was built by the last King. They say the small island was used by the king and there was a secret tunnel to go to it from the palace.
Caste system to that extreme does not exist in Sri Lanka now as it did in the feudal era, Although some Sections of the Jaffna Tamil community still practice it quite strongly
Thank you for youre authentic videos(i watch most of them). I will follow your route, accomodation in mid December as i am in Colombo. I am driving so i will miss the public transport experience🙏❤@@FrugalTravellers
We went to the botanical garden there, lovely. We also went into the temple and found it very interesting and the on-site museum was very good. We took the train from Kandy into the tea plantations, a welcome relief from all the chaos of the city.
That all sounds lovely, L and B. Well done for seeing the sights... we just couldn't gather the energy, so thoroughly enjoyed just wandering around the main streets of Kandy 🤗🇱🇰♥️
Awesome video! I live in Peradeniya, but I still couldn't visit some places that you have shown here. Thank you! Chandala was one of the lowest cast people living in that era.
Hello Menaka 👋 How cool that you live in Peradeniya and are watching our Sri Lanka videos 🙏🤗 Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, and for providing the information on what Chandala meant! We appreciate your helpfulness and support 🙌🇱🇰♥️
That's so cool! We ended up going to Kandy three times, as it's where I had a biopsy and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Asiri Hospital Kandy is excellent 👌👍
Another great video guys! I fly to Sri Lanka tomorrow, when I go to the website it says my visa eta is approved but no email? I applied a week ago. I’m guessing this is fine as the visa is electronic to your passport right?
Yes, S Sap! That's why we thought it was so cool to be able to see the latest Indiana Jones movie in Kandy... and wow, it was a brilliant experience 👏 🤗♥️🇱🇰
Thank you guys for visiting our county.we hope you guys are joining alot.Thanks for you support to motivate other travers to our county.But please be careful from scammers❤❤❤
Hello Janith 👋 Thank you so much for your lovely comment, and for the great advice as well. We had the most amazing 7 weeks travelling around Sri Lanka, and did spot a few scammers... but 99% of the people we met were so kind and helpful! Here is our Sri Lanka playlist showing more of our adventures in your beautiful country 🇱🇰♥️ ruclips.net/p/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF&si=4K7R_e6ol0TQJsn8
I don't know how you guys find your way around when travelling. I was in Lisbon recently. I was practically lost. I didnt know where I was, or where I was going, ,I was just walking around and unexpectedly coming across popular spots.
Ww do loads of research in advance, Mysty... from reading blog posts to watching RUclips videos or reading guidebooks on our Libby app. We also have the Maps me app, and download the places in advance, noting the things we really want to see. It's not easy at times, which is why we had a few days off in Kandy 🤗😊
My trick is to always do a bit of prior research as to what attracts me. Then I mark the places on my maps.me app so I know where to find them when I'm wandering around a new city. 😊. It's hard to get lost with modern technology. 🙏😊
Hey hello again Lee and Maddy i don't like Kandy much no night life and all and it's quite a drive from Colombo takes 3 hours 😢 have fun love and prayers from my side 🙏❤️
Welcome back, Pocahoetaz 👋 It's always so lovely to hear from you. Everything is going well for Lee and I, thank you 🙏🤗 We've thoroughly enjoyed the past 2 months housesitting in Portugal, and have been busy editing Sri Lanka and Philippines videos. Lee wants to catch up a bit more to real time, which is another reason why we're now posting 2 videos per week 😊🙌
Srilanka looks a beautiful country, I'm not 100 percent sure to go.think it would get on my nerves people asking tuk tuks ect all the time.great video as allways
Hello Julie 👋 Thank you for your lovely comment. Sri Lanka is an amazing country... and it was good practice for us to learn to just let the queries fly over our heads, especially as we're planning on going to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan this year, and I'm sure they'll all be full on 🤗😊 I hope we managed to show some of the great things about Kandy, and you'll see more in the 2 other Kandy videos coming soon! Thank you for being so lovely 🙏🤗 ~ Mandy
Thank you for sharing that, M P! Yes, Lee told me when we were discussing whether to go to the latest Indiana Jones... and it seemed like perfect timing to watch the Premiere in Kandy 🤗👏🇱🇰♥️
@@Hamzah.alqahtani Well and truly! Travel burnout doesn't happen to us very often but it hit hard in Kandy! The ironic thing is that we didn't think that much of Kandy the first time round, but we ended up going twice more after I was diagnosed with breast cancer there, and I really like the city now 🤗🇱🇰
We love travelling and realise how fortunate we are... but sometimes we get a bit overwhelmed by sightseeing. Kandy was the ancient capital of Sri Lanka, but we decided to take things easy there 🇱🇰♥️
We spent an awesome 7 weeks travelling in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Here's our Sri Lanka series: ruclips.net/p/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF
There will be more videos to come from this amazing country so remember to SUBSCRIBE & tap NOTIFY!! 👍
Hi guys, love watching your travelling videos, can i know where you stayed in Kandy?
Hello Geeta. Thank you so much for your lovely comment 🙏🤗 We stayed in different places in the 3 different times we were in Kandy. I'll go back through Booking dot com and will add a link to the best property in the Pinned Comment. Please remind me in case I forget 😊🙏 ~ Mandy
Dear Mandy, thank you very much for the prompt reply, Ok i will wait for your reply. Nice talking to you❤@@FrugalTravellers
Hi Guys I attended middle school Trinity college in Kandy part of the Anglican church. The Principal and the chaplain were Englishman during my time .The chapel is a fine piece of architecture and the painting done by George Keyt, on top of a hill overlooking Kandy. Back in the day we had steam engines pulling the trains needing two to get over the Kadugannawe pass to get to Kandy from Colombo. When I got home my face was full of soot. Mandy I hope you are keeping well Love from Florida
Hello Marlon 👋 It's so lovely to hear your stories about life in Sri Lanka. We actually stayed near Trinity College the second time we were in Kandy... up from the police dog training centre.
I am well, and woyld like to thank you so much for asking 🙏🤗♥️ ~ Mandy
Sri Lanka, looks like the gift that keeps giving!
Take care and stay safe x 🙏🇬🇧
Hello Steve 👋 Sri Lanka is an awesome country - it is a wonderful place to visit, and we spent an excellent 7 weeks travelling there. We are so pleased you are enjoying these videos of our adventures, and we really appreciate your wonderful feedback and comments 🙏🤗😍
Great Video ❤ Great Tour round Kandy ❤ Looking forward to your next Video, as always ❤ xx
That is so lovely to hear, Susan 🥰 Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and your brilliant feedback 🙏🤗♥️
Great video guys. I did like Kandy, I remember a relaxing walk around the lake, and we saw lots of water monitors too.
That's so cool, Cindy. The irony is that despite Lee not being too fond of Kandy, we ended up going back 2 more times because of the breast cancer diagnosis! The universe works in mysterious ways ✨️ ~ Mandy
Where i grew up , went to school and used to hang around
Wonderful 🙏😍. Kandy is such a great city. ❤️
Thank you so much for visited our country and warmly welcome overseas brothers and sisters to Sri 🇱🇰 Lanka ❤❤❤❤
@@RanjithLatha-y6u Thank you so much, Ranjith 🙏🤗. We had an amazing 7 weeks in Sri Lanka, and have many other videos in our Sri Lanka playlist. We hope you enjoy them:
Sri Lanka Travel 🇱🇰♥️: ruclips.net/p/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF
Lovely video as always! Chandala was the lowest caste ( like ‘untouchables’ in India I think). Those triangles in the wall around the lake were used to put coconut oil lamps. The wall is supposed to represent waves. The lake was built by the last King. They say the small island was used by the king and there was a secret tunnel to go to it from the palace.
That is so interesting, Nav! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this fascinating information with us - we really appreciate it 🙏🤗🇱🇰♥️
Caste system to that extreme does not exist in Sri Lanka now as it did in the feudal era, Although some Sections of the Jaffna Tamil community still practice it quite strongly
Love the simplicity of blending into the place. ❤
@@morrispolynkiukakea3796 Thank you for your lovely comment 🙏😍 We had such a great time in Kandy.
Thank you for youre authentic videos(i watch most of them). I will follow your route, accomodation in mid December as i am in Colombo. I am driving so i will miss the public transport experience🙏❤@@FrugalTravellers
@@morrispolynkiukakea3796 Oh, that's wonderful 😊 We hope you have an excellent time in Sri Lanka, and that you enjoy the delicious and healthy food 🤗🥰
We went to the botanical garden there, lovely. We also went into the temple and found it very interesting and the on-site museum was very good. We took the train from Kandy into the tea plantations, a welcome relief from all the chaos of the city.
That all sounds lovely, L and B. Well done for seeing the sights... we just couldn't gather the energy, so thoroughly enjoyed just wandering around the main streets of Kandy 🤗🇱🇰♥️
Nice video❤
Thanks so much 🙏🤗 We had such a wonderful time in Kandy!
May the New Year be a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year to all Sri Lankans
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏🤗🙌
You guys always put a smile on my face :-)
That's great to hear, Greg 🤗🙏 Thank you for such lovely feedback.
Awesome video! I live in Peradeniya, but I still couldn't visit some places that you have shown here. Thank you! Chandala was one of the lowest cast people living in that era.
Hello Menaka 👋 How cool that you live in Peradeniya and are watching our Sri Lanka videos 🙏🤗 Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, and for providing the information on what Chandala meant! We appreciate your helpfulness and support 🙌🇱🇰♥️
Hey hello again Lee and Maddy i don't like Kandy much no night life and all prefer Colombo any day 😂 lots of love and prayers to you both have fun ❤🙏
Hello Nisar 👋 I know what you mean... and yes, we preferred Colombo as well 🤗🇱🇰
Glad to see you guys in my home town 🙂
That's so cool! We ended up going to Kandy three times, as it's where I had a biopsy and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Asiri Hospital Kandy is excellent 👌👍
@@FrugalTravellers I'm sorry to hear that. Are you getting treatment in Kandy as well? Love your positive spirit! 👍
love kandy nice vlog
Excellent! Thank you so much, Prabatha 🙏🤗
Another great video guys! I fly to Sri Lanka tomorrow, when I go to the website it says my visa eta is approved but no email? I applied a week ago. I’m guessing this is fine as the visa is electronic to your passport right?
Hmm... as far as I can remember, we received an email for our ETA approval, which we had to show when checking in for our flight.
Indiana Jones Temple of Doom movie set is nearby Kandy. Famous bridge scene filmed there.
Yes, S Sap! That's why we thought it was so cool to be able to see the latest Indiana Jones movie in Kandy... and wow, it was a brilliant experience 👏 🤗♥️🇱🇰
Thank you guys for visiting our county.we hope you guys are joining alot.Thanks for you support to motivate other travers to our county.But please be careful from scammers❤❤❤
Hello Janith 👋 Thank you so much for your lovely comment, and for the great advice as well. We had the most amazing 7 weeks travelling around Sri Lanka, and did spot a few scammers... but 99% of the people we met were so kind and helpful!
Here is our Sri Lanka playlist showing more of our adventures in your beautiful country 🇱🇰♥️
ruclips.net/p/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF&si=4K7R_e6ol0TQJsn8
@@FrugalTravellers Ok guys....
I don't know how you guys find your way around when travelling. I was in Lisbon recently. I was practically lost. I didnt know where I was, or where I was going, ,I was just walking around and unexpectedly coming across popular spots.
Ww do loads of research in advance, Mysty... from reading blog posts to watching RUclips videos or reading guidebooks on our Libby app. We also have the Maps me app, and download the places in advance, noting the things we really want to see. It's not easy at times, which is why we had a few days off in Kandy 🤗😊
My trick is to always do a bit of prior research as to what attracts me. Then I mark the places on my maps.me app so I know where to find them when I'm wandering around a new city. 😊. It's hard to get lost with modern technology. 🙏😊
Hey hello again Lee and Maddy i don't like Kandy much no night life and all and it's quite a drive from Colombo takes 3 hours 😢 have fun love and prayers from my side 🙏❤️
Hello Nisar! I see you accidentally wrote twice... I know it's a RUclips glitch 🤗 One thing.. my name is Mandy, with an N, not Maddy 😊🙌
@@FrugalTravellers oops sorry 🤦😂
Hay , kandy is a world heritage site and sacred city . Night life doesn't go with there culture. You better go Colombo for such things .
@@ZxZx-ih3nl yes sir 🙏
Thanks to visit our country, I love both u❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much 🙏🤗🇱🇰♥️
Nice to see how you deal with travel burnout.
Hi Carolina. I'm so pleased you found this video informative. It was good to be able to show the other side of travelling 🤗🙌
Hello my beautiful people! watching this one and the older one today, hope everything is alright there🙂
Welcome back, Pocahoetaz 👋 It's always so lovely to hear from you. Everything is going well for Lee and I, thank you 🙏🤗 We've thoroughly enjoyed the past 2 months housesitting in Portugal, and have been busy editing Sri Lanka and Philippines videos. Lee wants to catch up a bit more to real time, which is another reason why we're now posting 2 videos per week 😊🙌
Happy new year Sri Lanka see you again soon love country snthe tuktuk drivers ❤❤
That's so lovely, Sandra. Thank you for your kind words 🤗♥️🇱🇰
Srilanka looks a beautiful country, I'm not 100 percent sure to go.think it would get on my nerves people asking tuk tuks ect all the time.great video as allways
Hello Julie 👋 Thank you for your lovely comment. Sri Lanka is an amazing country... and it was good practice for us to learn to just let the queries fly over our heads, especially as we're planning on going to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan this year, and I'm sure they'll all be full on 🤗😊 I hope we managed to show some of the great things about Kandy, and you'll see more in the 2 other Kandy videos coming soon! Thank you for being so lovely 🙏🤗 ~ Mandy
Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 a paradise for tourists
It really is. 😁♥️🇱🇰
Sri Lanka🇱🇰 the hidden diamond of Asia
Yes, the pearl of the Indian ocean. ❤️🇱🇰
Hello there! Indiana Jones part one Is filmed in Sri lanka
Thank you for sharing that, M P! Yes, Lee told me when we were discussing whether to go to the latest Indiana Jones... and it seemed like perfect timing to watch the Premiere in Kandy 🤗👏🇱🇰♥️
No, it was part two, Temple of Doom. The old classic Bridge on the River Kwai was also filmed here.
My home town ❤❤❤
We hope you enjoyed this video 🙏😁🇱🇰❤️
What month is this ? Thank you 🙏
Hello Callum. This was June last year.
This is my home town .but now I Live in your Country ..in UK .WALES ...❤❤🇱🇰🇱🇰🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thatsso cool to hear, D J 😁🙌 Both are lovely countries... but with very different weather and fruit! 🙏🤗🇱🇰♥️
Travel burnout is so real
@@Hamzah.alqahtani Well and truly! Travel burnout doesn't happen to us very often but it hit hard in Kandy!
The ironic thing is that we didn't think that much of Kandy the first time round, but we ended up going twice more after I was diagnosed with breast cancer there, and I really like the city now 🤗🇱🇰
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Thank you so much 🙏🤗
my country is beautiful ?
Your country is so beautiful! Just wait to see the next videos from Sigiriya and Nuwara Eliya 🤗♥️🇱🇰
@@FrugalTravellers bestof luck
Watch a srilankan movie in 2024 please ❤❤❤
@@NitroLinuk9806 That's a great idea. Which movie would you suggest?
@FrugalTravellers villain , solo town, visal adare movies
@NitroLinuk9806 Excellent, thank you for those recommendations. Hopefully they'll be on Netflix soon.
Brits out of Sri Lanka....
We'll, one Brit and one Kiwi.
"chandalas" means low caste people : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandala
@@damindadineshimaduwagamage9044 Ah, that makes sense! Thank you for sharing this information with us all 🙏🤗