Even if you do not really like the ruins, your vlog is beautiful! 💖 The pictures in slow motion are incredible. There are all sorts of travelers. I really like. Continue your spectacular work. 🥇

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that nice reply Guylaine! Happy you liked it :)

Cool video, slowmo's are great. We stumbled into your channel, love the Dutch connection and the travel spirit. We subbed to make sure we keep track of your travels in Asia. 👍

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Hey there! Awesome to have you! Nepal is next so cool stuff should be coming :)

Nice video it is my living town.thank you..

Nice travel and good work. I love this.

2:05 , that was the somewhat the parliament of the ancient city of Polonnaruwa. the king and he's ministers would come here to talk about certain issues in the kingdom. There we go, history lesson taught! ;) Great vlogs by the way, really enjoying it! :)

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Haha awesome, thanks for that! Happy you like them :)

How do you edit your videos? Im new to vid editing. Would love some pointers!

Thank you Hugo and Noemie for your entertaining vlog! This was a funny vlog! I liked your slow-motion montages and your music. You had a beautiful sunny day. I liked seeing the temples. It was funny when Noemie said "Where's the exit?" :) I liked seeing everything you showed. I miss your map that shows where you are. Great vlog! Thank you! Thumbs up!

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Haha glad to hear you like the realness! We both were a bit on different energies, but we made it to the end luckily ;)

Hey guys, don't worry about doing things just for the footage.. If ye always do what ye really want to do, your footage and energy will be so much better! So don't forget to put your adventures as a priority too! Thanks so much for the amazing videos! I'm currently in my last year of secondary school and CANNOT WAIT to get to travel the world!! Ye are awesome and keep up the good work😃😃

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Mary, awesome to hear from you! Exactly, doing what you love is one of the important lessons we're constantly learning. Thanks for following our stories and commenting, it means a lot to us. :)

beautiful vlog. nicely done

Awesome vlog! Visit Pasikkudah next guys ;)

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

We will but first Kalpitiya! ;)

The Buried Cities of Ceylon: A Guide Book to Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa... Sir Stephen Montagu Burrows - 1905 Prakrama Bahu, who is almost the only notable character of the Pollonnaruwa epoch. The early part of his reign was marked by a series of struggles with foes of his own household, from which he emerged triumphant into undisputed sovereignty. Returning to his capital, he devoted himself to the arts of peace, the restoration of religion, and the expansion of architecture. He sent to Siam for priests of the superior rank, which was nearly extinct in the island; and he summoned a Church Council to settle debatable questions of religion; he restored the sacred edifices ofAnuradhapura, he built innumerable "Wiharas," preaching-halls, and rock temples; the most remarkable of these rock shrines, the Galwihara at Pollonarua, .being at the present day, in very much the same state as it is described in the Mahawanso. He also placed guards round the coast and erected fortresses of refuge, raised a wall round the capital which is said to have enclosed an area twelve miles broad by nearly thirty long, built almonries for the poor at the four gates, and a palace for himself with 4,000 apartments, constructed 1,470 new tanks, and repaired as many old ones. A fresh revolt of his domestic foes again summoned him to the battle-field, and he celebrated his final victory by a magniificent procession which reads like a Roman triumph. The heavenly powers smiled upon his success; for a heavy storm broke while the triumph was in progress, and furious rain flooded all the ground but that occupied by the procession, which remained miraculously dry. He next turned his arms against the Kings of Cambodia and Arramana (a region lying between Siam and Arracan), who had plundered his merchants and insulted his ambassador. In a pitched battle, his general defeated and slew the Cambodian King, seized his capital, and made the country tributary to his royal master. A second expedition Was shortly afterwards dispatched against the allied monapchs of Soli and Pandyan, whose headquarters were at Madura in South India. Success again attended the Sinhalese arms; the enemy, in spite of their overwhelming numbers, were repulsed and broken in seven great battles,; Rameswaram and the six neighbouring districts fell into the victor's hands, and Pandi paid tribute to Pollonarua. The mere recital of these exploits of war and peace, while it fills us with admiration for the last great prince of a fading race, gives us some idea of The command of Labour, the density of population, the activity of agriculture in -a land which is now a wilderness of barren jungle inhabited by a few fever-stricken villagers. Prakramabahu died in A.d. 1186. in the thirty-third year of his reign. A characteristic statue of him still stands, cut from a solitary rock, about a mile and a half to the south of the city which owed to him all its glory. The King has his back turned to the city, and holds in his hand the open "book of the law," as if to imply that more consolation is to be found in religious meditation than in the construction of many monuments.

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that info ;)

@dasadist22

7 жыл бұрын

Your Welcome. If you guys are Welsh here's some info Gerald Massey, in The Book of the Beginnings (1881), In Volume 1, pp. 451-453 : “ “The tradition of the Bards, now to be listened to with more respect, is that the first colonies came forth seeking a place where they could live in peace, and that they fled from a land which they could not possess without warfare and persecution, whereas they desired to do justly and dwell at peace amongst themselves. So they came across the ‘hazy sea’, from Defrobani. Defrobani agrees with Taprobane, a name of Ceylon. Mary Jones in Celtic Literature Collective (2004) writes : “Welsh records maintain that the very first Druids, i.e., the Pheryllt, arrived in Wales as part of the migra¬tion of Cymry, a people who had traveled from the “Summer Land” of “Defrobani.” Defrobani is the Welsh word for Taprobana, an early name for Sri Lanka, an island off the coast of India that shares the same yogic culture. It is said that the Cymry were guided from Defrobani or Sri Lanka to the British Isles by the Welsh culture hero Hu Gadarn, and the proof of their journey can be found in the Welsh language which is full of Sanskrit root words. Once in Wales Hu Gadarn founded the first sect of Druids, who were worshippers of Kerridwen and believed to have been the Phe¬ryllt The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as well as the Kingdom George Lillie Craik, ‎Charles McFarlane, ‎Hans Claude Hamilton - 1838 The Cymry, or ancestors of the present Welsh, therefore were, according to this authority, the first inhabitants of Britain. Another triad (the fourth of the same series) states that their leader was Hu Cadarn, that is, Hugh the strong, or the mighty, by whom they were conducted through the Hazy, that is, the German Ocean, to Britain,and to Llydaw, that is Armorica, or Bretagne. It is added, that they came originally from the country of Summer, which is called Defrobani, where Constantinople is. Some interpreters have been inclined to go so far for Defrobani as to the island of Ceylon, one of the ancient names of which was Tabrobane ;* and we shall find in the sequel that there is another theory, as well as that of the Welsh triads, which connects the British islands with Ceylon. A Voice from Stonehenge -Henry Montague Grover - 1847 For we know that Sir William Jones, whose learning and judgment qualified him to give such an opinion its full weight, saw distinct evidences to lead him to a conclusion, that the Indian island of Ceylon and the European island of Crete were in ancient times in some sort of connexion: and according to M. Pezron the Curetes were a race of Cretan Druids. The first of these then is found in the conformity of the periods of the Ceylonese and DruiJical Festivals: for the two principal feasts of the Candians are held in the months of June or July, and November at the new moon; while those of the Druids were held at Midsummer Day, and on the 1st of November: not certainly on those specific days, but by reference to some state of the moon in connexion with those fixed periods; as occurs, in the adjustment of the Ceylonese festival and our own Easter. For the Druids, we are told, reckoned by lunar months, but held the sixth day of the moon to be the first day of the month: and although I do not find this particularly noticed among the modern Ceylonese, yet I do find a reference to it by the Roman Pliny in his account of the island of Taprobane, received from the Ambassadors of its king to the emperor Claudius. These affirmed, that the moon was never seen in their country, till the eighth day after its novitiate; a fact, which whether Taprobane be taken for Ceylon, or a more distant island, shews that the eastern nations observed the initiate of their months from the moon's first quarter, as the Druids did. It can hardly be doubted, however, that Taprobane was Ceylon. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction 1839 Whence came the Druids? This is a question that has been frequently put of late years, and the answer has generally been-the east. This is, as regards the sense of the mere word east, quite true; though when the particular part of this quarter of the earth is asked for, a variety of opinions become manifest: Persia, India, and Ceylon, are respectively stated to be the original seat of Druidism; and the asserters of these several opinions as to the native land of the Druids, in some instances, differ widely as to the nature of its principles. It has been identified with Buddhism.

I love this

Wow amazing

Nicely done...

You guys should visit Hortan Place and Adams peak ..It will be a great experience..

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We missed them but next time when we come back ;)

Good job sir.

couldn't understand why she's dosen't like ruins. I live 30Km near to this place.

@Elle_Gowing

5 жыл бұрын

Lucky you!! That place looks so atmospheric.

Love you both of you

You are so sweet! cool. like the people who lived in Anuradhapura /Polonnaruwa era. I think like that.. Full of mindfulness. ;)

Good

👌👌

Everyman needs a Naomi in his life!

Ooo yaa I'm the 4th viewer of this vlog and 2nd commenter 😄😄

@hugorijpstra.netherlands

7 жыл бұрын

Haha congratulations!

nice trip!, wich are your cameras?, come to my channel and enjoy, ill do the same in yours!

I miss my country

thnx for including it although you not really like it...being an 'archeoloog' i appreciate it ;)

You should know more about polonnaruwa before do a vedio program.

Welcome to a new f^ck? Did I hear right?