welcome to what is probably the worst day since we arrived in Sri Lanka I know I probably look
like like a complete exhaustion right now and it is because of how our day went so far so it
started off really really nicely in Galle and we were staying there at the Fort Thari Inn and everything
was fine we got into with we got into a car with a driver I'm sorry I'm so dead already anyway we
got into the car with a driver and came out here to unawatuna into the place that we had pre-booked
over booking.com now I don't know if we should we name the place that we would We're Not Gonna name
it because we don't we don't want to damage this place reputation or anything like that but it is
absolutely horrible horrible which is very strange because usually we look at reviews and this place
actually has good reviews which is really weird on booking.com it has very very good reviews
I think it was a what is it like a 8.6 8.6 yeah so usually we check the booking.com reviews and
some Google reviews and everything usually is according to what it says online but in this
case it really really isn't so we arrived at the new place here in unawatuna and well first of all
the owner of the place seems to be a little bit sketchy I guess so we arrived and then
like immediately he started out asking us to pay up front before we even properly checked in or
anything and that's usually not the case around Sri Lanka usually you pay somewhere mid to end
stay you know after seeing the room and everything anyway he asked us immediately to pay up front
which we didn't do yet but we will probably have to do it and then after we saw the room itself
and it's really not as advertised so the sheets are very very dirty
the guy is just very unpleasant as always a lot of traffic
they light the lights don't even work the lights don't work in the accommodation
everything is very dirty I don't know and just this overall feeling of you know
this place is probably not a good place to stay we also read some reviews about the place
and uh three three of the reviews on this place said that the owner literally robbed
the people they he went into their room stole money from them and then when they brought him
to the police station he basically just laughed in their face and the police did the same so yeah
not a good feeling
and not a good experience at all but nonetheless we went back on to booking.com we have reserved
we preserved a different place which we are only hoping is going to be better but so far
to be completely honest Unawatuna is giving us a absolutely horrible Vibe and we never never ever
like to project negativity in our videos most of the time as you probably know if you watch our
stuff we're very very positive and almost overly positive because we try and look at the positive
side of all situations but to be honest today is just extremely bad the thing with the bus as well
if you want to yeah oh my God so we basically were trying to walk to find some food as well
we left our accommodation we went on to the main road and it's roughly around one and a half to
1.8 kilometers outside of Unawatuna Center because we tried to get a little bit of a saving
on the place because a lot of unawatuna very expensive for obvious reasons it's a very touristy
destination but we wanted to come here and make a video so we're on the main road and we're walking
sort of to look for a cafe and to look for an ATM to pay this person and we see a bus
so Naomi just stuck her hand out she flagged down the bus I jump on she jumps
on and immediately one of the people in the bus starts to push Naomi out of the bus and
while driving while it's driving while the bus is driving and I actually if you can see here
scraped my knee on the actual bus itself so I was Naomi was pushed out I had to jump
out the back of the bus and yeah it was just an absolutely insane experience to be honest
thank you but we finally got some juice here we've got some refreshments now the thing
with the bus that I don't understand we were obviously like approximately two kilometers
down the road and this is the only Road and we were going towards unawatuna center now I
don't understand why they couldn't take us for the two kilometers or whatever on the journey
obviously we would have paid them but it kind of seemed like they just didn't want somebody on the
bus for such a short Journey or something like I don't know but uh yeah today is challenging and
not going so well I'm just kind of I'm ready to just go to bed and like call it a day basically
yeah for sure it's definitely not a highlight so far guys of our trip to be honest but
we're gonna take you guys with us we have to go back to the accommodation actually
now in a sec we're gonna grab our bags and head to our new accommodation and hopefully
hopefully it will be a new beginning to a very terrible day I'm done
little status update I want to say with the help of our new accommodation we were able to organize a lovely tuk-tuk driver and
we just picked up our bags we picked up our bags really really quickly and paid the guy
because obviously you cannot cancel a booking at the same day so we unfortunately had to pay the
full amount of money and we're now back to the new accommodation which is lovely we checked it out a
few minutes ago it's really nice it's very clean and yeah I cannot wait to take a nap I want to say
it's been a long day and it hasn't really started so yeah we're ready for nap
all right so made our way to our new accommodation and we just arrived in the room wow it's much much
much nicer than the last place that we were in thankfully um currently unawatuna is having a
little bit of a power outage though so there's no AC yet but we do have an amazing fan going so
that's great nice big double bed Naomi's already in there because she's very sleepy and tired
it's been a pretty crazy day we have a very nice balcony as well which is kind of overlooking the
Center area of unawatuna is literally just here beyond the trees and then there's a nice
pretty nice anyways bathroom I'll show you guys it's nice and nice and bright in here
so you do have the window nice little bathroom set up in the shower there too so both of us are
very happy and just grateful that everything seems to have worked out it's really funny because unawatuna
is this is the second accommodation as you guys know and we came here to the new one
and once again the guy is like can you pay now and we were like well we kind of want to see the room
first and then we went to the ATM and we couldn't even access the ATM because there was a power
outage so we're going to be paying for this place probably later on tonight when the electricity
comes back it's usually he said it's usually off for like an hour or an hour and a half but yeah
it's been a very eventful day pretty crazy I think this place here has a generator though because the
ceiling fan is still working so if you maybe we can try to turn on the AC no nope it's not working
fans working fine so they obviously have some sort of a backup for the fans but yeah guys it's an
improvement and we're obviously going to be making a totally separate video giving you our actual
first and first impressions of unawatuna this is just literally the day that we arrived and wow
we've had a really bad experience yeah and um not that oh I got I look like I I had a rough day
um not everything every single day is always perfect and we wanted to show you that side of
uh traveling as well now obviously when it comes to Sri Lanka I think this has been pretty much our
first negative experience but we still wanted to tell you obviously just to be fair and show other
tourists that both sides are possible but it's very very rare that something like this happens
yeah it's true it actually is I think the first negative day genuinely since we arrived here we
had a couple of other days where you know you're getting approached a little bit too much by tuk
tuk drivers or whatever but that just comes along with being in Asia in general but nonetheless guys
we're very very grateful that this seems to have worked out a place that we're in now is definitely
much nicer the owner is much more friendly and it has fantastic reviews as well overall so I
think we we made the right decision anyways and we're definitely going to kick back relax enjoy
first evening here and then we'll see you guys in the next video where we actually give you our true
and honest first impressions of the most touristy place I think in all of Sri Lanka maybe even more
so than hikkaduwa unawatuna hopefully the next video is going to be a little bit more positive
I'm very sorry that we had to do this but yeah we have to show you the real sides yeah yeah we don't
want to lie to you guys that's the thing see a lot of people always say to us you always just speak
about the positives and that's oftentimes just because we really want to show just how great
certain countries are in Sri Lanka is genuinely one of the best countries that we've traveled to
since we started traveling we really have enjoyed our time here so far and it's just literally today
we just hit a wall and we had nothing but like negative experiences and that's just unfortunate
sometimes you have bad days and that's literally goes for every country that you travel to so yeah
but for now guys my name is Luke my name is Naomi we are the two mad explorers and this
is your reminder to keep exploring see you guys in the next Sri Lankan adventure for watching