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Ali
Travel creator and friend of Harry's who joins him in India — first celebrating Holi in Delhi.
Ali
Ali (YouTube: @GoWithAli) is a travel creator and friend of Harry’s, and one of his companions in India. During Holi in Delhi he is the first of the group to take a direct hit of colour, and he and Mac work the streets and the party alongside Harry.
Appears in
- Celebrating Holi in India with Locals — celebrates Holi in Delhi with Harry and Mac.
- Crazy $10 Challenge in Delhi, India 🇮🇳 — spends the day in Old Delhi with Harry on a $10 budget, translating the sweet-shop order and talking him through the chutneys.
- I Ignored the Media and Visited China 🇨🇳 — in Shanghai, where his fluent Mandarin is what gets the group through a country with the Western internet blocked.
- Surprising Luke Damant, World Nomac and Go With Ali in SRI LANKA 🇱🇰 — the only one told Harry is coming; he passes on the villa’s details, meets him at the top of the road and plans the surprise.
- My First Impressions of SRI LANKA (Not what I expected)🇱🇰 — spends the morning in Kandy with Harry, and gives his own route in: he quit his job on one day’s notice and flew out, and had already had a week or two on the south coast.
- Epic Sri Lanka Road Trip 🇱🇰 (Sigiriya) — asleep for most of the drive, and first into the pool at the other end.
- Foreigner Visits 8th Wonder of the World (SRI LANKA)🇱🇰 — climbs Sigiriya despite a fear of heights, talked up the one exposed staircase by the other three.
- Sri Lanka’s Spiciest Kottu! 🇱🇰 — explains what kottu is before it arrives, and is the other half of the advice to order it spicy.
- We met Elephants in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 — at Pinnawala, and the one the elephants take to.
- Best 5 Star Hotel in Kandy, SRI LANKA 🇱🇰 — supplies the pre-workout and drags the others to the hotel gym.
- $200 New Jungle Hotel in Ella, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 — the third of the group over the two nights above Ella.
- I Didn’t Expect This In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 — rates his own nerves at 100 out of 10 and rides the 550-metre zipline with his eyes closed, which Harry makes a point of crediting.
- Sri Lanka’s Best Roti 🇱🇰 — eats his way through the roti crawl in Ella.
- The Most BEAUTIFUL place in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 — it is his birthday, and he comes last in the race and pays everyone’s bus fares.
- Avoid This Man in Sri Lanka! 🇱🇰 — spends the rest of his birthday in the back of the car to Weligama.
- Day In The Life Of A Youtuber In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 — at the beach dinner in Mirissa.
- $0.30 Local Breakfast In Welligama 🇱🇰 — stays out of the sea, and takes the tuk-tuk into the back streets with Harry.
- First Impressions COLOMBO, SRI LANKA 🇱🇰 — the whole day tour of Colombo, and gets recognised in the street.
- $50 Sri Lankan Beef Wellington 🇱🇰 — up the stupa despite the heights, and talks Harry into eating a whole chilli.
- Avoid This Sri Lankan SCAM!🇱🇰 — waits in the sun through the whole thing, confirms Harry would have paid 5,000, and pays the bill.
- Funny Challenge In Sri Lanka’s Biggest Market 🇱🇰 — buys Harry a replacement pair of shoes instead of the joke present the challenge called for.
- Sri lankan Stranger Won’t Let Me Pay 🇱🇰 — eats his way down Aluthkade with Harry, and is the one who has been there before.
- $200 Fine Dining in Colombo, Sri Lanka🇱🇰 — works out the crab tools before Harry does, including the pincer Harry never finds.
- Kind Sri Lankan Family Gets A Reward 💰🇱🇰 — walks the alleys behind Aluthkade with Harry, and films his own video the same afternoon.
- Why I LOVE Sri Lanka (Sinharaja Forest) 🇱🇰 — two days in the rainforest, and the last stop of the series with Harry.
Videos featuring Ali
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Celebrating Holi in India with Locals
Harry celebrates Holi 2022 in Delhi — a paint fight through the streets of Old Delhi, then the big organised party at a New Delhi hotel.
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My First Impressions of SRI LANKA (Not what I expected)🇱🇰
A morning on foot and by tuk-tuk around Kandy — a $2 ride, a cricket shirt he refuses to haggle down, a $1.50 local breakfast that turns out to be the spiciest food he has eaten, and a lake full of fish.
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Why I LOVE Sri Lanka (Sinharaja Forest) 🇱🇰
Two days in a rainforest lodge reached by Land Rover with no phone signal — lunch off a banana leaf, a 4 km hike past a wasp nest, a smallholding's goats, and an unofficial walk through a working tea factory.
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Crazy $10 Challenge in Delhi, India 🇮🇳
Harry and Ali see how far $10 goes in Old Delhi — chai, a brutal head massage, a haggled tuk-tuk, cheese paratha, a box of sweets, and a "designer" shirt that blows the budget.
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Funny Challenge In Sri Lanka's Biggest Market 🇱🇰
Two hours in Pettah market on a challenge to buy each other the most ridiculous thing — a $2.50 fake Apple Watch, a $5 shirt, a wig — and Harry's first note that Sri Lanka's economy is in trouble.
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Avoid This Man in Sri Lanka! 🇱🇰
The drive south from Ella to the surf coast at Weligama — a $70 car for four, a $7-a-night hostel room, $3 sunglasses from the friendliest sellers of the trip, and one aggressive encounter on the walk back.
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The Most BEAUTIFUL place in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Three tuk-tuks race to the Nine Arch Bridge with the loser paying everyone's bus fares — and the one who offered a bonus for speed gets taken the long way round.
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Epic Sri Lanka Road Trip 🇱🇰 (Sigiriya)
The two-and-a-half-hour taxi from Kandy to Sigiriya — an $11 Pizza Hut stop, a driver chewing betel nut, a wild elephant standing in the road, and a $150-a-night villa at the end of a dirt track.
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$200 Fine Dining in Colombo, Sri Lanka🇱🇰
Five courses of Sri Lankan crab — oysters taken as shots, crab liver pâté with palm syrup, a prawn simmered in garlic oil for its head butter, a colossal black pepper crab, and a coconut crème brûlée.
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Foreigner Visits 8th Wonder of the World (SRI LANKA)🇱🇰
A 6:30am climb of Sigiriya rock in the rain — 1,200 steps, a 6,090-rupee foreigner ticket, a summit in cloud, and an elephant bathing in a river on the way home.
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Surprising Luke Damant, World Nomac and Go With Ali in SRI LANKA 🇱🇰
Harry books a flight out of Dubai four hours before it leaves, arrives in Sri Lanka with no visa and no onward ticket, and surprises three friends at a villa in Kandy.
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$200 New Jungle Hotel in Ella, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Two nights in a hotel built into a hillside above Ella that had opened four days earlier — an infinity pool over the forest, a shower that finds your body temperature, and a Sri Lankan breakfast alongside an English one.
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$0.30 Local Breakfast In Welligama 🇱🇰
A 60-rupee lime drink made with salt and pepper, the best pineapple he has eaten cut at a hole in the wall, a pair of sunglasses lost to the Indian Ocean, and a shirt he admits he negotiated badly.
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I Ignored the Media and Visited China 🇨🇳
Six days in Shanghai on a transit visa — a marriage market where Harry is rejected repeatedly, cameras on every pole that locals defend, the best duck he has eaten, and a fake market walkout.
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I Didn’t Expect This In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
A 550-metre zipline over the valley at Ella for about $20, a king coconut for 50 cents, and the fastest wi-fi Harry finds anywhere in the country — in a restaurant, after a day of looking.
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Kind Sri Lankan Family Gets A Reward 💰🇱🇰
Down the residential alleys behind Colombo's food street, where a man invites Harry into his home and describes what the economic crisis is doing to it — food and electricity prices, and a family he cannot manage on.
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Day In The Life Of A Youtuber In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
A working day in Weligama — a 7:30am surf lesson, a smoothie bowl, a co-working space, a TV interview, and a $16 beach dinner at Mirissa under the best sunset of the trip.
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Sri Lanka’s Best Roti 🇱🇰
A roti crawl through two Ella kitchens — a prawn roti in the Indian style, a coconut roti in the Sri Lankan one, and a banana-chocolate dessert roti, for $2 to $4 a plate.
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Sri lankan Stranger Won’t Let Me Pay 🇱🇰
An afternoon on Colombo's all-night food street — 20-rupee sweet string hoppers at last, a samosa production line, a baker who refuses payment, and a seller who says he has overpaid.
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$50 Sri Lankan Beef Wellington 🇱🇰
A three-course fusion dinner in Colombo built on beef loin cooked in Sri Lankan curry and wrapped in puff pastry — plus where arrack actually comes from, and a stupa climbed for the whole city at sunset.
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We met Elephants in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
A $15 ticket at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage — the herd walking back through the town from its bath, chains explained as a safety measure, and Harry unable to decide whether the place is what he was told it was.
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First Impressions COLOMBO, SRI LANKA 🇱🇰
A full day around the capital in a convertible tuk-tuk for 3,000 rupees — Pettah market, the Red Mosque, a $2 temple ticket good for two temples, and an elephant being washed in the middle of the city.
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Best 5 Star Hotel in Kandy, SRI LANKA 🇱🇰
Four YouTubers check into a five-star hotel in Kandy for the wi-fi rather than the luxury — a free room upgrade, a Sri Lankan breakfast buffet, and a chicken biryani that arrives with sauce and an egg in it.
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Avoid This Sri Lankan SCAM!🇱🇰
Harry asks a Colombo shoe cleaner the price about ten times, never gets one, has his trainers painted black without being asked, and is then quoted 3,000 rupees — having been ready to pay 5,000.
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Sri Lanka's Spiciest Kottu! 🇱🇰
A $2 chicken kottu in Kandy, ordered spicy on his friends' advice — how the dish is made, what it does to someone with no chilli tolerance, and the rule he uses to pick the restaurant.