On the Road again...

After our day in the village, we had to head back on the road to get to our final destination, Wildlife Camp at South Luangwa National Park. After a brief stop in Chipata for more provisions (and a great meeting with another lovely Banda sister, Nora Banda Phiri), we hit the rough road to Mfuwe, the district in which Wildlife Camp sits. Although only 150km from Chipata, that drive took us more than 4.5 hours due to the notoriously rough road. Several of us agreed that the washboards, potholes and embedded rocks could rival any of the nastiest UP roads you could find. As an added adventure, while driving through a village, we were flagged down by a group of people who had carried an injured man out to the road. It turns out he was in a motorcycle accident and needed transport to the nearest medical facility. Without much hesitation at all, the students made room on the bus, helped get him loaded and got him some much needed water. Eventually we got him to help in Mambwe, aided greatly by one of our students, Alex Moore, who is a paramedic, and Wil Hamilton, who is a Wildlife First Aid trained responder. We got the man loaded onto an ambulance (probably a double tibia fracture…ouch) and we were back on our way