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Nyangombe Natural Swimming Pool / Falls

The rocks are slippery and care should be exercised when walking on them.Close to the Nyangombe...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

The previous year the pioneer column on 11 July 1890 had crossed the Shashi River at the beginning...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Percy Clark in his book Autobiography of an Old Drifter tells how Charles Fox, nephew of Sir...

Category:

Scenic, Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Kirby family and their Salvation Army connection in early Rhodesia with the Pearson Settlement Farm from 1920 and the Howard Institute from 1923 (Part 1 of 2)

Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this article is referred to as “Dad,...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

First treks into Manicaland

One of the earliest groups of trekkers was Laurence van der Byl and his party of twenty five young...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

Category:

Historic

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.