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…
Follow our social media and blogs as we take you along on our birthday journey of joy and community. We are sharing stories from Royal Chundu through the eyes of our baobabs and all who love them. Fall in love with the poetry of our river and its residents. January…
There are things we can only fully understand when we experience them for ourselves, like raising a child, watching your newborn sleep, and your five-year-old run down hills, flailing limbs carelessly. Seeing that same child driving, waving to you as they sit at the steering wheel of their first car.…
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…
This is the story of how a girl from a small village in Zambia became Woman of the Year for one of the most prestigious hospitality associations in the world. Her name is Aggie Maseko, a woman now crowned Relais & Châteaux’s Woman of the Year 2023. Aggie was born in…





