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The last in the Enduro Lanka teamwork series. Teamwork doesn't end when everyone gets back to the campsite. In-fact everyone pitches in with the setting up, cooking and cleaning for dinner. Afterwards two man teams take two hour shifts staying up, to keep the campfire going to make sure no wild animals come straying into the campsite.

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We can't forget that the driver is also an integral part of the offroading team. It takes a certain amount of skill to gently descend into a body of water and then wade across it in a vehicle like this. Although it was specially modified for this kind of thing an inexperienced driver would probably end up going nose first into the river bank. I know I would.

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Ok, for this post I'm moving on from the muddy road where we got stuck to the rest of the trip. The Enduro Lanka team had to work hard through out the journey so it doesn't seem fair to only concentrate on a small portion. At this point the road was blocked with overgrown branches but, since this was a protected reserve cutting them was out of the question. So some of us had to hold the branches back while the vehicles passed.

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The third photograph in the Enduro Lanka series. As the pickup was on an incline the path had to be leveled out so it would be easier to winch the vehicle out and to reduce the risk of it tipping over.

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One of our vehicles on the Kumana trip got partly submerged in mud almost four feet deep. The right side of the vehicle was submerged while the left side was on the hard soil and the vehicle was in danger of tipping over. The team managed to tie a rope to it and using a tree as a pulley kept it from tipping over. Four people were needed the rope while another acted as a counter weight by standing on the vehicle itself.