Try

Let me put them into a more usual form first, Hanuman:

'I tried to paint the fence.'
'I tried painting the fence.'

Essentially the same here. The first stresses the attempt itself; the second stresses the experience of doing so.

'Try to do' always means 'attempt', with a succeed/fail goal.
'Try doing' is often used when we wish to communicate the feelings of the experience; the speaker may not have been interested in succeeding or completing the activity.