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1/25 Title "It Always Comes Down to the Details"
gingerman28:
The Ceylon Elephant Polo Association is headquartered in the town of Weligama, 15 miles up the beach from Galle. A World Elephant Polo Association tournament was held on the beach here in 2002. Another tournament was held in Galle in 2004. So it could very well be that the detour consists of either scoring a goal in elephant polo - you ride along behind the manout who drives and steers the elephant and you just have to concenterate on hitting the ball through the goal. The other task would be climbing the palm and walking across the high wire. Upon completing the task the teams will get directions to travel by train to Sigiriya and find the Lion Rock Fortress where the Roadblock takes place. Galle is in the south of Sri Lanka, Sigiriya in the north and are not close together. A train trip would take them back through Colombo. So it looks like we have several train rides to take during this ep.
puddin:
Good catch on the fence banzai (^.#
gingerman , we are honored to have you here =]/ ,thankyou |*
rmax:
I hope Bolo plays polo! (sorry, couldn't resist...)
tanbuns:
Good to have you posting with us, Gingerman! |#'
I enjoy reading your thoughts over at BLOWS!!!
gingerman28:
Thanks for the warm welcome; always happy to have people put up with my wandering thoughts. Here's another one. If they take the train down to Galle for the Detour of Elephant Polo or Toddy Tapping how do they then get up north to Sigiriya? Do tjhey take another train back to Colombo? This could be the time that Adam and Rebecca have their big showdown after they miss the connecting train to Habarane-Sigiriya. It certainly looks like the Fort Station in Colombo (good catch there guys especially picking out the white picket fence and Buddha statue in both pix). Some of the shots of the green and red tuk tuks are in rural areas (not Colombo city streets) perhaps on way from Galle Railroad Station to the Detour site, which could explain why Bolo is passing Adam in one shot.
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