When you live close to nature, as we do on the Zambezi River, you find yourself taking on a few rather peculiar practices. Obsessive pattern-searching in the clouds and leaves. Potato bush scent-trailing. And, a Royal Chundu favourite… moongazing. As with birdwatching, you find your gaze turning skyward as the light of day…
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always…
Muli Buuti – “Hello” in Tonga “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Meade Holding the World Travel Awards trophy in our hands for this year’s title as Zambia’s Leading Safari Lodge, for the…
There is a saying among the Luvale people in Zambia: “We went as makishi, we return as humans.” Canoeing on the Zambezi, I feel something quite the opposite. It is a human, mere human, who embarks on the adventure and a makishi who returns – sociable, ambiguous, aggressive and royal. The Makishi are the masquerade…
Someone once told me that the opposite of love is fear. Not war, not hate, fear. The contrast between the two is one of the greatest ironies of life, well, my life, at least. That which one might expect a person to be frightened of, like jumping out of a…
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore I had…
