Lesson 6 in the Royal Chundu Homeschool Sometimes we need to be gently nudged or outright pushed into taking time to be still and to focus on the simple joys. We’ve being paying these little quiet pleasures so much quality time in the last few weeks and learning new tricks…
Lesson One! Learning a new language takes time, dedication, curiosity. Some dialects are particularly harder than others – sometimes our tongues just won’t do what we tell them to do, our mouths just cannot figure out how to roll that “r”, how to create the correct click or intonation, or…
Let’s go back in time for a moment… 50 years ago, we ventured to the moon for the very first time and Martin Luther King Jr. shared his great dream. 40 years ago, Grease was the word and CNN was born. 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released after 27…
At Royal Chundu, the village provides, but it also runs, supports, drives and benefits from the lodge. We are a community-run lodge, one of very few of its kind in Africa. We wanted to explain just what we mean by that, because it’s a model that we believe can create…
The Zambezi River is the home of many strange and awe-inspiring creatures. Some consider the flowing waters as their permanent residence and others only come to play. For some, it is an annual pilgrimage, for others a once in a lifetime experience. The flowing water, the sun-baked banks and the…
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.” – Carl Sandburg There are several different survival techniques in life. We all need a well-thought-out strategy to enable us to handle life’s…