R3 Highway is a primary road in Zimbabwe from the capital city Harare to the Chirundu Border Post with Zambia. It is also known as the A1 Highway. It is part of both the Beira–Lobito Highway and the Cape to Cairo Road. Background The R3 highway is also known as the Harare-Chirundu Highway. Its historical and popular name is the A1 Highway and is long. In Harare it can be picked up at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue (A5) and Leopold Takawira Street. Follow Leopold Takawira north and turn right into Hebert Chitepo Avenue, then left into Sam Nujoma Street up to Lomagundi Road (A1) at coordinates , and from Chirundu it can be picked from the Chirundu Bridge or the Otto Beit Bridge. ( ) Pan African Highway Link Together with the R1 Highway which runs from Harare to Beitbridge, the R3 Highway forms the Chirundu-Beitbridge Regional Road Corridor, which is part of the North-South Corridor known as the Cape to Cairo Road. Chirundu to Beitbridge is . Trans-African Highway Link Together with the R5 Highway, which runs from Harare to Mutare, the R3 forms part of the Beira-Lobito Highway which is the Trans-African Highway Network route number 9. Rehabilitation The A1 Highway is currently under rehabilitation together with other regional road corridors in Zimbabwe. Most highways in Zimbabwe are more than 30 years old, outliving their 20-year life span, and they need rehabilitation. The rehabilitation of this highway is in conformation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Infrastructure Master Plan for the North-South Corridor. North-South Corridor is central a passage for SADC members' exports and imports to and from the north. It is seen as crucial to unlocking further development within SADC and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Waypoints Waypoints from South to North; Harare to Chirundu. Banket The first significant waypoint from Harare is Banket. This waypoint is usually overlapped by motorists because it is only before Chinhoyi. -17.38333, 30.4 Chinhoyi Entering Chinhoyi, the first billboard encountered just after the Manyame Bridge notifies one of a rest place just a kilometre away. Ten years from opening its doors, the Chinhoyi University of Technology Hotel has become a favourite stop-over for travellers along the Harare-Chirundu Highway. When you live Chinhoyi towards Karoi about north, (that's about from Harare and about before from Chirundu Border Post is the Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park,