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The Vedda Tribe قبيلة الفيدا
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Apr 21, 2025
The Vedda Tribe قبيلة الفيدا Thanks to @RuzainaHadgie for helping me with this filming Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjaypalfrey TikTok: jaypalfreytravel Blog: https://www.brokebackpackeronabudget.com [email protected] thankyou to Classic Travel for flying me to Sri Lanka: Www.classicsrilanka.com #tribe #jungletribe #travel
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Can you imagine a life like this
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A lifetime in the forest. A white kind of drug? I'm not sure what kind of drug it was
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Deep in the heart of Sri Lanka, there are people just like this
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This is the Veda tribe. To get to Sri Lanka, I needed to take three flights
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from Iran to Dubai to the island of Mali, and finally, Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangalore International Airport, where the local time is 30 minutes past 6pm and the temperature is 31 minutes past 6pm
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This is the final stop before we head deep into the forest tomorrow. We've just made it to Mahayan, Genaya
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Tomorrow we're finally going to meet the tribes of Sri Lanka. good morning everybody right now i'm walking further into the forest to finally meet the
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veda tribe the veda tribe are an indigenous tribe found here in sri lanka wow thick beautiful
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rainforest. I'm really excited to finally meet them and learn about their life
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So we found the tribe. Let's head inside and learn more about their incredible lifestyle here in the forest
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The Vedas tribe have been around for over 58,000 years, living in true harmony in the
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nature that surrounds them. For many years, most Vedas have chosen to leave or forced out of the jungle, stripping
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most of their identity as they live in modern society. Many Vedas are still living in this traditional way of life
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The war from war and when we first entrarry it will be important as part of ruled Charlize Learn So what he saying is there only like 10 or 20 who lives traditionally like this
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The rest of them want to be absorbed into the modern society. Is that through choice
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going back into the society. So what he's saying is that there is only a few like him
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who wants to preserve their heritage and culture and he will die with his heritage and culture in him
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He will die living like this? Yes. so they actually spend a lot of their day chewing on some kind of tobacco and they also had a white
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kind of drug, I'm not sure what kind of drug it was that they take with the tobacco and
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then they also chew on tobacco leaves. It's extraordinary. I've never, never seen anything
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like this before. How many times does he do this per day? He's saying that when he, like when he wakes up in the morning for the sunrise, like, and then
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like, answer her name, like, start of the day, and then it's only like late at night that he
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He has a freedom, he gives freedom for his mouth. So he does this all day
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All day. Until the sun sets? Not sunset, in the middle of the night
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Until the middle of the night? Yeah, that's what he said. He gives freedom for his mouth only at the middle, like in the night
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Wow. So last night they actually laid a trap ready to eat so we gonna go ahead and see what they found
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A lot of them have been integrated back into society but as you can see some are still living their traditional lifestyle out here in the jungle
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so this is one of the traps he's laid to eat just got a few of them around this area
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so we can catch birds deer anything that kind of walks past
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So for most of the day, they spend their time hunting out here for food
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This time of year is very popular for bees honeycomb. So he's been hunting a lot for actual bees and bigger things like birds and deer
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For them to eat, it means they have to hunt. The Vedder only kill if it feels right for them
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They don't kill animals drinking water that are pregnant or sleeping. Super sweet So this is what they eating today and they don eat in regular dinner times
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they eat whenever they find it so here we've got some leaves
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with some chili and some corn that she's just cooked and how many times a day does she eat the tobacco
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too much so although they do live in the jungle you can see they live in homes shelters inside the jungle so
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very basic rooms made out of wood with mud piles to protect them coconut tree leaves on the top
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and then inside are two very basic rooms one for the bedroom one for the kitchen
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He said that his heritage for so many generations
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have been corrupted by this type of behaviour and societal pressures towards his tribe
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Does he wish his son was living the same life he is? So what he's saying is that he wishes his son would live this lifestyle
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because it's more free and it's more good for him. For them it's a free lifestyle, right
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But he's saying that he has got adopted into modern society and he's basically getting absorbed into the modern culture
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With modern-day life moving in all around them, accompanied with modern-day pressures
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This gives the tribe of over 58,000 years a very unknown future
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So this is where the adventure finishes. The Vedder tribe here in central Sri Lanka
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60,000 years of cultural heritage and traditions slowly coming to an end
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Let's continue our journey throughout Sri Lanka
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