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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

Mary Blackwood Lewis’s letters on her journey to Mashonaland from Beira 1897-1901

Letter from Beira dated October 15th 1897The most amazing thing happened the other day. I am with...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

An explanation for the Y-shaped rock art motifs found on Nottingham Estate in the Limpopo-Shashi Valley

Introduction This article relies heavily on two articles by Geoffrey Blundell[1] and Edward B....

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Cyrene Mission

In 1939 Canon Edward Paterson, an Anglican priest born in Scotland but raised in Johannesburg, was...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Harare’s oldest House at 110 Livingston Avenue, Harare

IntroductionThe information in this article is mainly sourced from the informative article by Peter...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Some backgroundThomas Leask (1839 – 1912) was born at Aglath, Stenness in the Orkney Islands...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

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.