Chama

Chama is a small town in the Eastern Province of Zambia and the headquarters of Chama District. It is one of the most remote district headquarters in the country, lying just inside the eastern edge of the upper Luangwa Rift Valley at the foot of the highlands that divide Zambia from Malawi. Only one gravel road serves it, coming from Lundazi and from the provincial capital Chipata, 300 kilometres to the south. A dirt track connects the town with South Luangwa National Park, 200 kilometres to the south-west, and another follows the Malawi border north towards Isoka District. A road westwards across the Luangwa River to Matumbo, on the Great North Road, was being developed to give Chama a second main route out.