Chelston
Chelston, also Chelstone or Chakunkula, is a neighborhood in Zambia's capital city, Lusaka.
Chelston, also Chelstone or Chakunkula, is a neighborhood in Zambia's capital city, Lusaka. Before the 1960s Chelston was a separate town until it was annexed into the greater city of Lusaka.
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Worth seeing in and around Chelston
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Nkoloma Stadium
Red Arrows Football Club is a Zambian football club based in Lusaka that plays in the MTN/FAZ Super Division. They play their home games at Nkoloma Stadium in Chelstone, Lusaka.
1.2 km · building in Zambia · Wikipedia - 02Levy Mwanawasa Medical University
Levy Mwanawasa Medical University, is a public university in Lusaka, Zambia. It is the country’s first ever specialized University for health studies.
4 km · public university in Lusaka, Zambia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chelston
- Airports
- Kenneth Kaunda (LUN), 8 km · Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe (NLA), 267 km
- Ndola → Chelston269 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · $150–220
- Livingstone → Chelston386 km · quickest by air, 3h 53m · $130–200
- Mfuwe → Chelston445 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · $190–270
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chelston
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chelston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundMinibuses are ubiquitous, cheap, and, if already full, fast.
- Get aroundMinibuses do run into the evenings, but become decreasingly frequent at the evening wears on.
From Wikivoyage: Lusaka, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Chelston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Chelston
Chelston is 11 km from Lusaka, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.