AFRICAN BUSH CAMPS
View finder: Perched on top of the escarpment, Bumi Hills Safari Lodge overlooks the floodplains and Starvation Island, where wildlife stranded when the lake’s waters rose still survive
You don’t mess with Nyaminyami, the river god of the mighty Zambezi. Half serpent, half fish, when something upsets him, he’ll stop at nothing — not even death — to vent his anger: locals believe he killed over eighty people in one day seeking to protect his valley. And now I’m here, I can understand why.