We are so proud to have Royal Chundu Lodge Manager, Aggie Banda as a Member of the Relais & Châteaux Sustainability Commission. Aggie has been on the Commission since March 2024 and is serving in this role for 10 years. Aggie writes… I have always been driven at Royal Chundu…
Find Your Chitenge Cheer The Zambezi Joy Society brilliantly blossomed into business in June 2020 with a deep, dedicated desire to spread chitenge cheer around this great and giddy globe. At first, we called it the Royal Chundu Online Shop but we knew we needed something funkier to show the joy…
A village means family. Support. Help. Hugs. Soccer opponents. Extra hands in the garden. Babysitters. A village makes light work of that which you would struggle to do alone. It makes the time fly when you’re cooking for many mouths. It means song and dance from many beating hands and…
Let me tell ya ’bout the birds and the bees And the flowers and the trees And the moon up above And a thing called “Love” – Jewel Akens Southern carmine bee-eaters spend much of the year nesting on the clay banks of the Luangwa River in Zambia and, beginning…
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Celebrating Community ~ With Delicious Journeys & Relais & Châteaux
At Royal Chundu, delicious means connecting the threads of community. In our new Delicious Journeys video, filmed with Etched Space for Relais & Châteaux’s inspiring global #deliciousjourneys campaign, one Chitenge cloth shows the story of how this iconic local fabric and the spirit of community connects us and all that…
“Why should we garden, when there are so many mongongo trees in the world?” ~ !Kung tribesman You may come across the mongongo tree, mongongo nut or manketti tree (Schinziophyton rautanenii) and imagine your younger self resting or climbing up, up, up on its sturdy sky-bound branches. If not you,…
