The Luangwa River defines the Eastern boundary of South Luangwa National Park.
Elephants hanging out near our camp at Luangwa River Lodge usually spent their nights in the game management area just outside the park on the other side of the river and then crossed over in the morning to spend the day inside the park. They made use of the same depression in the riverbank as we do to get up and into the park. Only we used Land Rovers, while the elephants just marched up the side of the bank. I photographed these elephants from the river’s beach just a few moments before we followed them up the bank. This image helps tells a story through incongruity – it is not often that both man and wild animal will share both the construction and use of a ramp to higher ground. Our vehicles made it easier for the elephants to get into the park, while the elephants trampled the mud into the ground and made it a firmer track for our vehicles. This image makes a strong follow up to the preceding image as well. It adds another dimension to the river-crossing story.