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Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Northern Cave

The Northern Cave at Chikupo has a short steep and slippery slope on the western...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) and the Dam Wall

The dam was constructed in 1960, the same year the Recreational Park was established. The primary...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Masvingo

Cattle are our Bank

By T.K.M. TsodzoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Rhodes Nyanga Historical Exhibition

The Museum building itself, now known as Rhodes’ stables was built by a stonemason, R. Marks...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Dan Judson and the Africa Transcontinental Telegraph Co

In the article on the Mazowe Patrol, under Mashonaland Central, I have noted that Dan Judson, the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Bulawayo Railway Museum

The Museum office was the station building for Shamva from 1931 until moved and re-erected in...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.