Chanters Lodge – Restaurant Terrace

Chanters Lodge – Restaurant Terrace


Yesterday I posted a Guest review from Louisa Chanda, together with a photo of our pool. Louisa works in Customer Relations with Proflight, Zambia’s leading domestic airline and stayed with us recently at Chanters Lodge with her family – here’s the second great photo showing our restaurant terrace.

Louisa’s dad Chris Thackray and I first met in Malawi in 1976! It was great to see him again after a long time and to catch up on all his news. He and his charming wife Birgitta now live in Sweden, fairly near Stockholm.

Louisa was also busy hunting down new office premises for Proflight in Livingstone city centre – when they’re open I’ll let you know when and where!

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“Much More Than A Guest House”

“Much More Than A Guest House”


I just love it when Guests send me photos after they’ve left for home, and they’re always better than anything I’ve ever managed myself! Louisa Chanda, husband Michael, and her dad Chris and his wife Birgitta recently stayed at Chanters Lodge, Livingstone for a long weekend, to celebrate Louisa and Mike’s 3rd wedding anniversary. I received this e mail after their visit:

“Thanks so much for the warm and friendly environment that we received from both you and your girls. The food was lovely and it was much more than a guest house…it was like going to stay at a friend’s house.

We will definitely be back!! I know that Dad and Birgitta really enjoyed their time there. I have attached a couple of photos that you might want to use for your lodge website…I like the one of the pool and the one of the verandah taken from the garden. You probably have loads like it but just in case :)”

And there’s the first of the photos above, showing better than I could, the quality of our swimming pool and the progress on Rooms 11 and 12! Thanks Louisa, I’ll post the other photo tomorrow!

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Power Of Love Foundation

Power Of Love Foundation


Recently Alka Subramanian was a Guest at Chanters Lodge in Livingstone. Alka is a Director of the Power of Love Foundation in Lusaka, and this is what they do!

Power of Love develops smart, effective methods to strengthen the community response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Currently, though 99% of the work to counter the spread of HIV is being done at the grassroots level, little funding is going to these community-based organizations. The money that does reach them is used to fulfill immediate on-the-ground needs.

Program funding is often based on meeting performance goals that measure success only by how many people the program reaches, not how effectively the program reaches them. There are few resources and little time in grassroots organizations to explore new, potentially more effective responses to counter the spread of HIV.

Power of Love believes that by utilizing technology and business processes appropriately, we can build creative response models that increase the output of care for each dollar donated.
We design, develop, and test innovative response models to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As the models prove successful, Power of Love shares them with existing grassroots organizations and communities interested in starting new programs for themselves.
We certainly wish them all the best with their wonderful project!

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Activities – Kijubi.com

Activities – Kijubi.com


There are so many different activities available for visitors staying at Chanters Lodge, Livingstone, to a certain extent depending on the time of year – right now the most popular are white water rafting (pictured above), visits to Livingstone Island and the Sunset Cruise. We spend a lot of time trying to guide Guests in the right direction in terms of what they’d like to do. For this reason the following article in the New York Times caught my attention:

“You picked the place, found the perfect hotel, and secured your flights. Now what are you actually going to do on your vacation? Kijubi.com, a new vacation activity site that went live today, hopes to answer that question for you. The site, which is meant to sound like “Could You Be” — as in, “Kijubi surfing?” — allows travelers to easily search and book more than 70 categories of experiences from sea kayaking to skydiving to theme parks, by theme, activity or location. A recent search for activities in Newport Beach, for example, shot back a list of 109 options including surfing lessons, whale watching, theme park tickets, horseback riding and paintball.

“The online travel agencies do a terrific job of getting you to your destination but don’t address what to do when you get there,” said Brian Fried, Kijubi’s chief executive. “No one comes home and says, ‘Man, I had a great rental car experience.’ They say ‘I went shark diving.’”

But the site, which currently lists about 250 vendors and roughly 1,000 activities, still has a long way to go to fill this niche. Only a few states, including California, Florida, and Nevada, are listed and many of the activities are obvious, like rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park. Videos, user ratings and reviews are still to come. “We think we’ve just scratched the surface of reaching a critical mass of recreation vendors,” said Mr. Fried. Other destinations, he said, will include Hawaii, Colorado, and New York.”

Let’s hope Africa, Zambia and Livingstone soon feature on their site too! Or maybe someone needs to start a site like this for Southern Africa?

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Anyone For Pimms?

Anyone For Pimms?


Check this cheeky monkey at the Royal Livingstone! While Mary Schmidt, a Guest of ours staying at Chanters Lodge Livingstone, was visiting the hotel, sipping a lovely Pimms and preparing to watch the sunset, matey here decides he’ll have the fruit out of her glass! Husband Torr was fast enough to snap it!

The Royal Livingstone replaced the Pimms – of course – and Mary and Torr had another great African story!

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Ras Mbisi Lodge, Mafia Island, Tanzania

Ras Mbisi Lodge, Mafia Island, Tanzania


My first two postings overseas when I was much younger than I am now were Mombasa Beach Hotel in Mombasa and The Reef Hotel, Seychelles – I never did quite get over them!

Now…. Why am I always doing this? Having just got over the beautiful Mustapha’s Place on Zanzibar, from Twitter I now find the gorgeous Ras Mbisi Lodge and I’m immediately back in a ‘Beam Me Up Scotty’ situation! Check the beach in the picture outside the Ras Mbisi front door – if indeed they have or need a front door!

This stunning Lodge is on Mafia Island off the coast of Tanzania and markets itself as ‘barefoot luxury’! Don’t you just love that! Here’s the blurb:

“Welcome to Ras Mbisi Lodge, the first bespoke, sustainably-built lodge on the west coast of the beautiful island of Mafia, Tanzania. We believe in offering our guests ‘barefoot luxury’: a retreat that is effortless, stunning and relaxed. We combine good food, striking accommodation and outstanding natural beauty in this untouched part of Mafia Island, to give you a taste of an informal, but luxurious, piece of paradise.

We also have ready access to some truly astounding wildlife in season, including whalesharks and humpback whales. The area also has a rapidly regenerating reef, and a wealth of marine life. This is reflected in Mafia’s Marine Park in the Chole Bay area; the largest marine protected area in East Africa.”

Ras Mbisi is a small private ‘beach meets bush’ lodge set on 8 kilometres of deserted beach where we offer luxury back to nature accommodation in an informal atmosphere. We are the only true beach lodge on Mafia Island.

Put your feet up and let us look after you. We take the idea of barefoot luxury seriously, and our aim has been to provide a piece of island paradise for you to unwind and relax in. Limited mobile phone and no internet access means you totally get away from the outside world.”

Want to get away from it all! Look no further! Oh! And give me a call, I WANT TO COME WITH YOU!

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BUS SERVICE – VIC FALLS (ZIM) TO JO’BURG

BUS SERVICE – VIC FALLS (ZIM) TO JO’BURG


NEW BUS SERVICE TO JOHANNESBURG FROM VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE

DEPARTS DAILY

OFFICE OPEN DAILY TO 6.00PM FOR BOOKINGS.

ZAR600 PER PERSON AND INCLUDES:-

VEHICLE PICK UP FROM BOOKING OFFICE AND TRANSFER TO VICTORIA FALLS BACKPACKERS LODGE FOR THE NIGHT – DORM BED

VEHICLE WILL PICK UP CLIENTS FROM VICTORIA FALLS BACKPACKERS AT 3.00AM FOR BUS DEPARTURE AT 3.30AM

BUS ARRIVES IN BULAWAYO 10.00AM AT WELL EQUIPPED DEPOT – COFFEE SHOP, BATHROOMS, ETC

BUS DEPARTS BULAWAYO 1.00PM AND ARRIVES IN JOHANNESBURG 3.00AM NEXT DAY. CONDUCTOR WILL ORGANISE TAXI TO ACCOMMODATION (THIS SERVICE NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE)

GETAWAY SAFARIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SENATAR EXPRESS

TEL: +263 13 41480

E-MAIL: vicfalls@senatar.co.zw

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