There is a place, tucked into the trees on a wide bend in the Zambezi River, that in the wet season becomes part of the river.
No, not like that; it doesn’t float. The full river, instead, fills the channel running through the grounds, almost turning it into an island.
Driving into Mukwa River Lodge, off the Kazungula Road from Livingstone in Zambia to Kasane in Botswana, was an adventure all of its own. You see, the river was filling rapidly, and the entrance was, well, underwater.
“Mukwa is gorgeous on all sorts of levels, but for me, it was the swoon-worthy food My driver, in a minibus, was hesitant to cross. But on the other side, Linda Preston, the general manager - a no-nonsense Yorkshire woman - was waving…