SIGIRIYA LION ROCK, SRI LANKA 2017 - 8TH WORLD WONDER | VLOG #41
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2017
- Climbing the Sigiriya Rock in Sri Lanka was one of the things we really wanted to do. Sigiriya Rock, or Lion Rock as some call it, was home to a king that lived in a palace on top of this rock fortress. As you can see it is very impressive. The best part came after that as we also decided to visit the Pidurangala Rock, one that was even more beautiful for us. However something bad happened making it impossible to show you guys 😞
Accommodation: we stayed in a beautiful classic hotel near the Sigiriya fortress called Hotel Sigiriya, please check them out at their website: www.serendibleisure.com/hotels...
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Q: When and where did you guys meet?
A: Nusa Lembongan, Indonesia, 2015
Q: Where are you from?
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History of Sigiriya
Sigiriya may be the kingdom of Ravana who ruled the country maybe 3000 years ago. Rama from India defeated Ravana. Ravana was a undefeatable man. He can be defeated only with a particular weapon of Ravana. But who gave that weapon to Rama to kill Ravana and to destroy the entire kingdom? As the weapon belonged to Ravana Ravana´s stepbrother Wibhishana stole it and gave to Rama. So Rama killed Ravana. It is considered Sigiriya was the kingdom of RAWANA. Some believe that Ravana built the Sigiriya. After that Buddhist monk may have stayed there.
After maybe 2000+ years of Ravana, Sigiri Kashyapa developed the Sigiriya as his own Kingdom in the 5th century AD. Kashyapa was the first son of the King Dathusena. However, the king wanted to pass the reign to his royal son, (second son Mugalan). Kashyapa was the first son but his mother was not from a royal family. To be fair to the King Dathusena, the royal advisors forced to have a Royal Concubine to strengthen his reign. Because the Kingdom was not stable after an invasion from the South India. Dathusena was the King who defeated the invasion by the South India. Before Dathusena, there were six south Indian kings (invaders) who ruled the country from Anuradhapura.
However, due to a conspiracy by Migara who was the son of the sister of the King Dathusena, Kashyapa had to kill his father and took the crown by force. Migara, who was the Army Commander of the King Dathusena´s Army had a vengeance against the King because the King ordered to kill Dathusena´s own sister (Migara´s mother) as she was involved in a conspiracy to oust the King Dathusena. After understanding the death of Migara´s mother, his father also died due to a heart attack. Migara´s father was also a member of the conspiracy.
Migara was married to the daughter of Dathusena. However, this daughter also (Kashyapa´s own sister) was from his first marriage, which took place before he became the King.
The marriage between Migara and Dathusena´s daughter was not successful. There was also a feud between Migara´s mother and Daughter of Dathusena. Migara and his mother harresd Dathusena´s daughter.
Both Dathsena and Kashyapa wanted to build another palace in Sigiriya. However, due to financial issues, Dathusena gave up the idea but Kashyapa did not. At the beginning, Kashyapa did not have an intention to become a king by killing his father because he knew that Mugalan was the right owner to the crown.
Migara told Kashyapa if Kashyapa wanted to build the Palace on top of the Sigiriya, he had to become the King. Kashyapa believed it and he ousted the King Dathusena by force. But when he wanted to build the palace there was not enough money in the treasury. He asked for money from the deposed king Dathusena.
As a part of Conspiracy, Migara told Kashyapa that there should be a great treasure of King Dathusena, who may have hidden it for Mugalan. Kashyapa believed it without knowing that it was a part of a conspiracy to kill Dathusena by Migara to get his vengeance fulfilled. The king Dathusena had built 18 large reservoirs and 18 large canals for irrigation and agriculture. These reservoirs and canals exist and function today itself doing great service to the country. Due to these reasons, there may not be enough money to build a new palace on top of the Sigiriya Rock. Due to unbearable harassments, Dathusena, the deposed king agreed to show the treasure by himself. Then Dathusena went to the Kalawewa (his largest reservoir) and showed that the reservoir was his only treasure. Migara knew perfectly there was no money in the king´s treasury but his all intention was to kill Dathusena he pretended a kind of fake anger and ordered to kill the deposed King Dathusena by walling him alive into the reservoir bund. By this time Kashyapa had have given full authority to Migara to do what he wanted to find the wealth of Dathusena. Kashyapa was so sick of finding money. On the other hand, Kashyapa also had a sort envy against the King Dathusena because Kashyapa may have felt ill-treated after Dathusena deserted the kashyapa´s mother. Dathusena invited Kashyapa´s mother to go to the place but she did not agree to go to the palace as she did not accept Dathusena´s second marriage.
However, after killing his own father, Kashyapa withdrew from the Anuradhapura Kingdom and located his palace on top of the Sigiriya.
The great irony was by the time of Dathusen´s death, merchants who did trades with India, Greece, China and old middle east countries had agreed to incur the total cost of the construction of the palace on the top of Sigiriya. Migara did not want the king to believe merchants as the intention of Migar was different. Migara tried to convince the King Kashyapa that the merchants might not be able to incur the cost of the palace. However, the King tried both options, either to find the treasure of Dathusena or sponsorship of merchants. At the end, King Kashyapa built the palace on top of the Sigiriya Rock.
Mugalan went to India and returned after 20 years with an army from India to fight against Kashyapa. The fight started at the foot of the Sigiriya. During the battle, Kashyapa wanted to change his root tactically. However, Kashyapa´s Army assumed that the King was running away from the battle and the army too withdrew from the battle. Kashyapa was isolated and he had to commit suicide with his own sword. Then Mugalan took the crown and established his Kingdom again in Anuradhapura.
I am a Sri Lankan living abroad now. I miss my beautiful gorgeous country everyday 😢I miss the beautiful beaches,the sun,the breathtaking greenery,mountains,the waterfalls,the weather that can get change by driving just for few hours, the rich cultural heritage, scenic landscapes and wild animals making me to go back. Watching your guys videos making me miss my beautiful home more n more. It is most picturistic beautiful country. Like they say “It is a land like no other”
Es muí hermoso ese
Thank you Hugo and Noemie for your vlog! It was awesome to see the panoramic views from the top of Sigiriya Lion Rock! You both had a great work-out climbing the stairs to reach the top! You really had a beautiful day to explore. Sorry you lost some of your footage. I enjoyed seeing your beautiful drone images! Thank you both for sharing your adventures! Thumbs up!
Hey Mike! Happy you liked it, although we lost some amazing footage. Yet another chance to focus on what we did capture instead of what got lost and appreciate that. :)
This place is incredible. Can’t believe I didn’t even know it existed.
Proud To be a sri_lankan ..
I ♥ My Country.....
The footage is amazing! You have managed to capture Sri Lanka's beauty exceptionally!
Sigiriya Rock Sri Lanka
Sigiriya History
The Sigiriya Rock Fortress of Sri Lanka is situated in Matale district near to Dambulla. It can be reached along Colombo- Habarana highway and turning towards East from Inamaluwa. Then proceeding about 10 km from Inamaluwa and passing Kimbissa township one arrives at Sigiriya.
Before Sigiriya became a Kingdom, the Sigiriya Rock base and the places such as Pidurangala which were endowed with many Caves and a temple had been dwelled by Buddhist monks from around 3rd Century BC. It is also found that these areas had been inhabitant by people prior to King Kassapa's rein. Many Caves also have Brahmi Inscriptions dating back from 3rd Century BC to 1st century AD.
After King Mahanama who ruled Anuradhapura from 410- 432 AD, a Prince named Dhatusena became the King of Anuradhapura in 459 AD, defeating the Indian invader 'Pandu'. The King Dhatusena was the ruler who constructed Kala Wewa or the Kala Wewa Tank, by building a dam across Kala Oya , which is a small river type. The man made 54 mile long Yoda Ela, which takes water from Kala Wewa to Tissa wewa is considered as an Irrigation engineering wonder even at the present day. It has a gradient of just 6 inches per mile along the first 17 miles , which means the level different is just over 8 feet even after the 17 th mile along the canal. During his rein the famous full relief Aukana Buddha statue also was constructed out of a rock which stands 42 feet high.
He had two sons from two queens. Mugalan [ also called as Moggallana ] from the head queen and Kassapa's [ also called as Kashyapa ] from a companion queen. Prince Kashyapa, with the help of the general of the army of King Dhatusena, named Migara, got his father killed and became the King. Prince Mugalan, fearing for his life, escaped to India. The Buddhist Bhikkus and the people were against his conduct and favoured Price Mugalan for the rulership. Fearing that Mugalan will come with an army from India to avenge him at a later day, King Kassapa decided to make Sigiriya as his kingdom. During his rule of eighteen years from 477 AD to 495 AD Sigiriya Kingdom was created. It is believed that he sought the refuge of Sigiriya rock for his safety fearing for his life.
After 18 years, Prince Mugalan came with an army from India to fight with King Kassapa. During the battle Kassapa killed himself thus Mugalan became the King. He went back to Anuradhapura and ruled the country from there and handed over Sigiriya back to the Buddhist priests. Sigiriya as a Kingdom was abandoned in around 1150 AD and was almost forgotten for the next seven centuries Though King Kashyapa is not regarded in high esteem in Sri Lankan history due to his dubious conduct, he is credited as a ruler with unsurpassed imagination put into reality to create a Sri Lankan style marvel of high calibre art and engineering skills that could even challange the outer world structures at that time, which definitely is amazing even in the 21st century with whatever is remaining as ruins of Sigiriya.
some fucking indian destory our history please u dont know our country history dont comment about sri lanka
WOW ... Good work. Nice presentation of the 8th WONDER - Sigiriya
Did they allow you to get drone footage?
Who knows what the name of the font used in this video is .. would be cool if someone could help me out
What time of the day did I go. When there are not many tourist.
From holland? Kijk eens aan! Ik ben nu in Sri lanka en ga morgen ga ik waarschijlijk naar de Lion rock. Kan je wat meer vertellen over de wespen/bijen? Moet je echt heel stil zijn? En is het slim om te gaan met een allergie?
Glad you really enjoyed the Paradise in true form! It amazes of the ancient architecture and engineering!!!! Back in time 🤔 when Elvis was performing in Las Vegas in 70’s ! 😊
you guy doing a great job with the drone ! nice. Do i need any special permission to fly drone in Sri lanka?
nice vlog man... keep going... recently i had been to srilanka. it's worth visiting.
You were standing on actual ancient flying ship, which is known as PUSHPAKA VIMANA. Great!! If you have an idea to make a documentary please let me know. I would like to share all the details with your team. Best Wishes
Hi, guys ! Bro, I thought you were so shy to record over views of the Lion Rock. Why you "save" ( like that song "save your prayer" ) your drone's images ? Anyway, thanks for sharing.
When did you go there?
How good is Sigiriya! Epic video btw
You guys did it well.. Ur Drone view wow 😍 amazing... 😂😍
What about permission to fly a drone in Sri Lanka? Did you get one or you just used drone without permission? I'm trying to figure out what is going on there with drone laws and I can't find full information anywhere.
THANK your for watching.How many steps are to Plateau???
lucky to be a sri lankan.. this is a better channel.. go on.. this is the best.. want some blogs in wonder of asia 'sri lanka'..
Thanks for that! :)
Just wondering... Are you two members of Mensa? (oh yah... forgot, sarcasm doesn't translate well when texting).
do you use a stabilizer or a camera with in body stabilization? your videos are so steady!
Not yet, but we're buying one soon!
You guys are champs. Where to next? I love watching y'all . Interesting stuff have you guys gone to Jaffna. That's the northern most part of the country. Where most of the war used to be. I'm not sure there's much to see in there except for the temples and some war memorabilia but I guess you'd have pretty much gone everywhere. It's got lots of spicy great food as well
Hey Thilo! We're heading to Nepal after Sri Lanka! We didn't go the Jaffna in the end, too hot and a lot of temples, which we had seen a lot already. Instead we have gone to Kalpitiya to watch Dolphins (vlog will come next week!)
cool drone shoots :) btw thought it was drone free zone inside of the "park" ha?
Hey David, thanks! You're not allowed to fly near the rock unless you've got permission, there has been an incident of someone crashing his drone in the rock a government officer told us. We didn't bring a drone in the park, we just flew it highly from a far distance and consciously didn't get closer than 100m above it (we wanted to though, but looked for a good middle way)
I just took my drone to Sigiriya recently- couldn't be bothered climbing. Have climbed this before when i was younger.
Guys did you know. Top of the lions rock there are water holes which the come out of the top and shoots out. Till now no one knows how the water goes up.... and when there was the lion face, there are used to be lifts to go top for the king...
Wauw super vette video weer. I am addicted! Enjoy Hugo and Noemi
Haha awesome! Thanks Thomas!
wow so early so few people. there were a lot of crowds when we were there
Nice job
hi again. .that small rock name is pidurangala meaning is warship rock because there was a temple.king kasshapa build that temple and sigiriya.....sorry for late comments ☺☺
Thanks for that knowledge!
iam half srilankan half british. 😊😊😊😊🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒
Haha good to know ;)
Nice videos you guys are making to the world.
Love all the drone footage, how strict did you find the drone laws in Sri Lanka? did you get the official permits or did you just ask for permission when you were there?
Officially you need permits for everywhere, but asking nicely gets you quite far :)
your videos are really so amazing ... Love a lot them ... keep up .... Good luck Hugo and Noemie... you both are so cool
Thanks Nipun, awesome to hear that! :)
awesome. now do 360 version
Very beautiful :) Thumbs up guys :D
Thanks! :)
HUGO and NOEMIE , you both are really amazing , I always look up to your vlogs . Srilanka through your lens was amazing , especially those tiny turtles in your past video. please do come and visit India , there are really amazing places and culture you have to experience.
Hey Deepak! Such a sweet message, awesome to know that you look forward to them! Don't worry, we'll be heading to India in June (North India) and July (Golden Triangle area, will be very hot though)!
i like this vdo :) we r going there tomorrow
Nice.. thanks guy..
Thank you for coming to see our country ....
Of course! It's amazing :)
Whoa whataaa stairs! Beautiful place and the view! It's beyond beautiful!
Haha yes right?! Thanks Kim, one of the best things we've done!
This was built around 5000 years ago, the British - who did not start History until AD 00, made it a 5 AD.
Nice work.
proud to be a srilankan
Nice video!
Hi Guys, What a wonderful video! Thanks so much for sharing. I have a question about it. I would love to ask you permission to use some of your drone footage for a video. I´m applying for an artistic grant about flamenco and would love to travel to Sri Lanka. Your images are so awesome, that I would love to include them in the video, so maybe I get the grant!! Thanks for your time!! Miguel
Hey there! We can't give the permission as sometimes this footage is exclusively used by e.g. a hotel, however we wish you all the best with your grant, if you work hard, you'll should get it! :)
I like you all videos, and so good
Excellent.
My daughter and her friend have been here days ago...
proud be a sri lankan
Damn right! ;)
binge watching all of your vlogs from Sri Lanka! I'm going in November and I'm getting more and more excited! I make travel vlogs too if you want to check them out ❤️
You'll have a blast! :D
Do you realize you visited an ancient giant petrified tree stump?
Cracks me up when people say this is carved stone.
None of these ancient civilizations were rock when they were carved. They were wood.
They recently just found mummified/petrified bats in a “rock” cave in the Grand Canyon, weird thing is... they are only TREE dwelling bats.
We are living on ancient petrified land.
I'm from Sri Lanka and I climbed Sigiriya it was so hard
I am from srilanka.. thanks
very nice
no need for sorry friends :)
nice drone shots :)
Thanks Raghav!
super video
you should have visited Polonnaruwa too.
Just watch the next vlog then ;)
beautiful
Thanks Elisabeth!
Nice
Wow
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You saved me tons of hassle
Hey guys visit siripada too
Thanks for the tip!
Hey its my country come to matara too its near mirissa
been there too!
Yuthmika Kulathilaka3 weeks agoIts the place where lord buddha left his foot prints
Funny.........
nice
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I would go back to Ancient Egypt !
Haha we wouldn't?!
who wouldn't*
You would or would not want to go back to Ancient Egypt ? Afraid of a little magic are you ? Plagues ? Parting Seas ?
very nice.
Thanks Irfan!
NICE
Thanks !
So, so incredible wonderful!!!
Thanks Victor!
The pool needs a new filter.
Hi I have a drone .
6:38 "motherfucker don't interrupt me again"
This is Tamil king ravanan place
If I can get back in time I would choose to live in Persepolis the capital kingdom of Persia 🦁
That would for sure be an awesome time!
It's the kingdom of Ravan 🔱🔱🔱🗡🗡🌞🌞🌞🦁🦁🦁🤴🤴👸👸👸👸
Why does she carry everything? The guy never helps out.
Its the place where lord buddha left his foot prints
Yuthmika Kulathilaka no. it is called sripadaya or adamspeak in english
Are you sure ?
That place was Tamil peoples homeland..... The srilankan peoples are Telugu peoples who came from India ..... They came there and occupy the place and treat Tamils as slaves
Umesh Lokuliyana haiiiiii........... Tamil nadu, India and sri Lanka and also moganjadharo are all Tamils place......... U don't angry man.......... Just wait for ****** years............
Umesh Lokuliyana u know angor wat in combodia..... That was build my suryavarman the Tamil king
Umesh Lokuliyana king ravanan is the Tamil king and my Tamil god.......ravanana palace were built 10,000 years agooo....... தமிழீழம்=ஈழம்(eelam) also called கீழம்(keelam) that have two meanings ..... 1-தாழ்வு பகுதி( downside)....2-it was located in downside of tamilnadu .......நீரிழிவு (nirilivu)(downside water place) that derived to ilivuuu and that was derived to eelam......
Umesh Lokuliyana..........Tamils are not fools...... We will stand like my ancient kings very soon........ ******* is Over.......😀😀😀
Ajay watson what an Idiot you are.! This is a traveling vlog. go and see physiatrist before stand like kings! lol
Hiiii everyone.....that's ravanan's palace....the Tamil king not a srilankan king..... Really a Tamil king.....what they told totally wrong
You need to have a proper history lesson
MEVOLION u need man....i don't want....... I know