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Devil’s Pass and Fort Watts

Fort Watts and Castle Zonga EstateThe position of Fort Watts was given by Mike...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Chizarira National Park

The name Chizarira comes from the Batonga “chijalila,” or “sijalila”...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Makumbe Cave and Lower Makumbe Cave

Makumbe CavePeter Garlake thinks that the immense Makumbe cave, 100 metres wide by 30 metres deep...

Category:

Scenic, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

The pub was a neat and tidy timber bar of English style with posts reaching up to support shelving...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Fort Haynes and the fight at Chief Chingaira Makoni’s Kraal

In June 1896 the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga broke out.Four companies of mounted infantry...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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

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.