Kanyemba
Kanyemba is a 330 m high place with about 3000 inhabitants in the Zambezi Valley on the borders with Zambia and Mozambique in the province of Mashonaland West in Zimbabwe . The border town in Zambia is Luangwa , which in turn is separated from Zumbo in Mozambique by the Luangwa River . For Kanyemba, both lie on the other side of the Zambezi, over which a pontoon bridge is to lead from Luangwa to Kanyemba since April 2006. The road to Harare is 400 km long.
The area surrounding Kanyemba is the Lower Zambesi National Park, which extends up to Karoi and is a difficult-to-access hillside location. This deserted area was the home of the guerrillas during the civil war. Today it is the region with the most illegal border crossings, around 200 per month by people from the Great Lakes region, who are mostly for 300.00 € (3000 Zambian Kwacha , price September 2005) with a pirogue over the river or the upper one Paddle the Cabora Bassa reservoir.
On the Zambian side there are over a dozen lodges on the river itself, from which tourists can stalk the animals on water and on land. The canoe safaris on the 200 km river from Kariba to Kanyemba are popular. There are also day tours on shorter sections. On the way every tourist can convince himself of the history of this inaccessible valley, in which tribes of all kinds have found refuge. Even today, over 70 languages are spoken here on the banks of the river, 19 around Kanyemba alone, so that even for Africans a knowledge of English is essential. Chikunda, spoken by 4,000 people, all descendants of once rebel slaves whom the Portuguese had banished to this extreme corner of their colonial territory, was the last African language into which the New Testament was translated. 3000 of them live in Kanyemba.
There has been a primary school since 1995. A mine has recently been discussed in which titanium and uranium are to be extracted.
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Coordinates: 15 ° 38 ′ S , 30 ° 24 ′ E