Wild animals have perfected the game of playing hard to get. In our relationship with them – one of equality and respect – they make the first move. Should we get impatient, lose ourselves in the excitement, and venture closer, we only scare them away. Most of the time, when I…
There are three things that are vital to us, here on our remote riverbank… Our connection to the land, our unity with the local people, and the creation of peace and tranquility. Our spa treatments echo this in every way, thanks to our joining hands with the local Zambian spa known as Sisters of Africa.…
“When I was young I used to watch the night sky for hours, looking for shooting stars. When they fell, I’d go and look for them in my backyard,” the traveller beside me on our sunset cruise said, as she gazed up at the night, waiting for a star to drop.…
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull It’s amazing how natural it feels to be a bird. Perhaps it has to do with being schooled in the art of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull as…
When you head out at sunrise on a breakfast picnic birding cruise and the sleep is still heavy in your eyes, the dreams of the night before blurred with reality, it’s easy to make little mistakes. Like forgetting the tripod back in your room, and the nifty fifty, and the telephoto,…
Rewards come in all shapes and sizes – a simple smile from a traveller delighting in their experience on our private stretch of the Zambezi, kind words written on their departure, our team’s pride in being the reason for another’s joy, and then, today’s example, recognition of a whole other kind… that…
