Well hello everyone, I hope that we are all feeling full and contented after a fabulous festive season and that we are getting ready to welcome the New Year in with gusto and enthusiasm.  Whilst speaking about this I am […]

This week, we will hear from Chris Meyer who just came back from Liuwa Plain! Over to you Chris. “Not many people have been to the Liuwa Plain National Park in the far west of Zambia but many may have […]

This week we’ll hear from the guys down at Majete. So its over to Emma! “The changing of season has been toying with us for some time. We have had a few spots of rain (although nothing to write home […]

So after last week’s foray over to Malawi, we are bringing you right back to the valley, where it really is the most magical time of the year.  I know you probably hear me harping on and on about it, […]

Trust you are well. This week we will hear from Dr Cheryl Mvula, a Responsible Tourism consultant. She has just spent some time at Pumulani to help us enhance our responsible tourism policy here. Over to Cheryl… ”The views of […]

I hope that you enjoyed another lovely weekend and are ready and raring to go for the week ahead.  Well, today, I am afraid to say that I sat in front of my computer, word document open and was hit […]

Can you believe it another peak season has passed!!  The lush greenery from May has been sucked up into the earth and replaced with a more desperate façade of dry dust.  Whilst this sounds bleak, trust me it is far […]

Well the subject of the week is: “jeepers it’s hot!!”  What makes things even better is that it is not just us feeling the heat.  The elephants can be seen regularly in the river joining the hippos and cooling down. […]

Hope you are well! This week we will hear all about Claire’s new adventures at Pumulani. Many of you will know Claire from her stint up at Liuwa as well as hosting the Mobiles. Over to you Claire: “I have […]

Hope you are well and had a fabulous weekend and are ready for the week ahead. This week I thought we would hear from the team at Mkulumadzi Lodge. So it’s over to Emma: “Another year is drawing to a […]

Hi there! I hope you are well, had a lovely weekend and are sitting comfortably to look up to the skies for this weeks flying tale.  As some may know, and others may be about to find out, Zambia has […]

Yes you guessed! So the story always goes that the minute you do something different, the weather is going to put in the knife and have something to say about it. August we opened the new Tena Tena and we […]

Dragging myself away from this dream and hitting reality once more it has to be said that this year we have had the most incredible wildlife experiences up on the Mupamadzi. The wildlife has really pulled out all the stops […]

As I sit writing to you this week, the office is slightly on the toasty side! The fan is whirring at full speed and all the loose papers on my desk are desperately trying to take off from underneath the […]

I hope that all you newly engaged ladies out there are sitting comfortably and ready to take this on as a suggestion to your fiancé, how about a 500 day honeymoon!!??  At this point I hear groans from all the […]

Hope you have had a brilliant weekend and are ready for the week ahead!  The guys at Mkulumadzi have had quite an exciting week with the release of “our” lions, so let’s hear from Emma all about it! “The last […]

Hope that you have enjoyed a glorious weekend and are sitting comfortably at work, revelling in the fact that it is Monday and there is another week ahead of us all!  Anyway for this week I thought that we would […]

I hope that everyone is doing as fabulously as we are.  We are however slightly up against the clock with the building of Tena Tena, but then again it would be boring if it was all smooth sailing now wouldn’t! […]

As I was sitting in the Landrover, bouncing around on the dirt road between Nkwali and Nsefu wandering what to talk to you all about this week (there have been many different happenings), I thought that we would take the […]

As most of you know, the camps have finally opened for the season and we are in full swing. So in the spirit of it all I thought that I would ask Claire (who’s at Tena Tena) to send us […]

This week I thought that we would branch out and go wild!  As some of you may already know, when RPS took over the concession on which we built Mkulumadzi Lodge in the Majete Wildlife Reserve we did so with […]

I hope that you had a splendid week and are sitting comfortably to hear the latest news from Liuwa Plain. The season there started only one week ago so, hot off the press, let’s hear from Polly, who has joined […]

I hope that fine weekends have been in order for all. Here things have been rather busy, as per usual, but at least it gives me an awful lot to share with you Where to start? I suppose the obvious […]

I hope that you are sitting comfortably and have had a lovely relaxing weekend. This week Zambia has been all go with staff, cars and equipment spread to their limitations. Robin, Jason, Polly and the rest of the team have […]

It has certainly been a week of ups and downs, arounds and abouts here in the valley. The serious high of having my family here was far too quickly turned around, as they left to go back to their everyday […]

Gosh, well, now I know what all the hype is about. I have always loved the bush and been fascinated by the wildlife but, very embarrassingly, have never actually taken the time to really enjoy it as a guest. Just […]

This week we start off on a sombre note with news of the passing away of the Malawian President, Bingu wa Mutharika; may his soul rest in peace. Our sincere condolences to the Malawian nation. I hope that everyone has […]

Hello – so then, how is everyone doing? Hope that we all had a great and relaxing weekend and are ready to hit the week with the usual amount of vigor and enthusiasm…. I was wondering what to write about […]

It has been some time since we chatted as we had whisked you across the border to Malawi over the last two weeks so we are pulling you right back into Zambia. This week I thought that we would talk […]

We start the week with exciting news on the soccer front, with a huge congratulations to the Chipolopolo Boys (Zambian National Soccer Team) on winning the African Cup of Nations this Sunday. An historical moment for Zambia, winning this acclaimed […]

Hope everyone is well and that those of you in the Europe are surviving the Siberian weather front that is currently en-route and also that none of you Ozzies out there have been hit by the floods we saw on […]

I hope that you are well and off to a great start for the week.  Last week I managed to digress so significantly that I failed to chat to you about Shoebills, so this week I am going to start […]