Kanyemba

Kanyemba is a 330 m high place with about 3000 inhabitants in the valley of the Zambezi River on the borders with Zambia and Mozambique in the Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. The border town in Zambia 's Luangwa, which in turn is separated by the Luangwa River from Zumbo in Mozambique. Both are for Kanyemba beyond the Zambezi, is to run from Luangwa after Kanyemba since April 2006, a pontoon bridge over the. The road to Harare is 400 km long.

The surrounding area of Kanyemba is the Lower Zambezi National Park, which extends up after Kaori and inaccessible hillside is. This deserted area was the ancestral homeland of the guerrillas in the Civil War. Today it is the region with the most illegal border crossings, about 200 per month by people from the Great Lakes region, typically for € 300.00 (3000 Zambian Kwacha, Price September 2005) with a canoe on the river or the upper Cahora Bassa dam can paddle.

On the river itself lie on the Zambian side over a dozen lodges, from which tourists can nachpirschen the animals at sea and on land. Popular are the canoe safaris on the 200 km stretch of river from Kariba after Kanyemba. There are also day trips on shorter sections. Along the way, every tourist can convince them of the history of this inaccessible valley in which strains of all kinds found refuge. Even today, over 70 languages ​​are spoken here on the banks alone to Kanyemba around 19, so even knowledge of English is essential for Africans. Chikunda that speak 4,000 people, all descendants of once rebellious slaves who had banished the Portuguese at this extreme angle of their colonial territory was the last African language in which the New Testament was translated. 3000 of whom live in Kanyemba.

Since 1995 there has been an elementary school. Recently, a mine is talking, are to be promoted in the titanium and uranium.

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