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The Restaurant that never took off

Viscount C/N 436 V.816 seriesDateNo. Sep-59VH-TVSfirst flight from Hurn Airport, Bournemouth...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Mzilikazi Memorial

The Memorial is on the site of Mzilikazi's royal town of Mhlahlandleia after he left Inyati and...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

O.C. Rawson (1874 – 1953) of Darwendale

The following story of Otto Christian Rawson[i] ‘O.C.'s’ early life in Darwendale...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Origins and legends of the Shona-speaking people

By Samuel GudzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Manicaland, Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands

In Zimbabwe, this area is known as the "Eastern Highlands." The northernmost area...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Hot Springs

The Rupisi Hot Springs are at the headwaters of the Rupisi River, about twenty miles in a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

Welcome

One of the purposes of this website is to reassure visitors that the whole of Zimbabwe, including those remotest corners, are safe to travel.

The only way that today’s visitors and residents of Zimbabwe can appreciate the jigsaw puzzle of Zimbabwe’s history is by visiting and by walking through these silent sites and examining them and reading the excellent site descriptions and brochures that are available which I would encourage NMMZ to keep expanding. If this guide helps those visitors a little in understanding the background information then the effort in preparing it will have been repaid.

Each article gives a breakdown of sites by area and by category on what there is to see, and each location has detailed directions on how to get there and the reasons to make a visit. This is being added to all the time, but if you know of a site that you cannot find here, please let me know through the contact form.

Although I have included the details of game lodges and tented camps, that does not mean I endorse them as this is a non-commercial site. I simply want visitors and residents to know what is available and, in any case, these places are an essential part of the typical visitor's wildlife experience of Zimbabwe.