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The ordeals in bringing the railway line from Beira to Umtali (now Mutare)

For the country to progress at all it was necessary to build an adequate transport system with...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The old Transport Road

Stanley Portal Hyatt came to Rhodesia on the Great northern Road when railhead was at Palapye...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

St Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mutirikwi

In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Chinhoyi (formerly Sinoia) Caves is a National Monument and in 1975 was designated as a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

Birchenough Bridge

Birchenough Bridge spanning the Save River was a gift of the Beit Trust has and was given its name...

Category:

Building

Province:

Manicaland

The Planet Arcturus railway line

The most comprehensive descriptions of this 2 foot (61 cm) light railway is to be found in Robin...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.