“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…
“One never knows how what one needs will show up. And this week it did in the form of the most generous people that I know,” our guest, Melony Van Der Merwe wrote recently, after her stay on our riverbank. Living in Florida, but South African-born, Melony’s heart keeps calling her back to…
“Have you seen the nest? The thick-billed weaver nest in the trees by the pool! Did you know there are eight different kinds of weavers on the Zambezi? There’s the golden weaver and the spotted-back weaver and the…,” the little boy rattled off a list of weavers that I had…
There’s something about the touch of a child’s hand in your hand. The gentle embrace of a life so new and fragile. We arrived on the riverbank of the Malombo village by boat and the faces of the children and grandchildren of the families in the village were the first…
A Taste of Zambia Essential Travel
Our Food Philosophy: Is it Good, is it Sustainable, is it Uplifting?
When it comes to our food philosophy at Royal Chundu, we like to consider three things: is it good, is it sustainable, is it uplifting?…
As we wound along the path through the trees, the view would retreat and return, retreat and return, in a game of hide and seek, and in the seeking we would find her… The Victoria Falls and her great fury and smoke. Like a blues singer wrapped around her mic,…
