Prehistory fans should set their sights on Kasama, around 150km south of Mbala.

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Some 1, 000km from the artsy capital Lusaka is the Moto Moto museum, remarkable for its incongruous location at the tip of the Northern Province in the dusty town of Mbala, from where the road tumbles down to Tanzania and the Great Rift Valley.

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