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Massapa (Baranda Farm) – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site in Mashonaland Central

Innocent Pikirayi states that the feiras and other trading settlements established in the late 16th...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Reminiscences of Percy Durban Crewe of Nantwich Ranch, Hwange

IntroductionThe notes below are from the handwritten reminiscences of Percy Crewe (1862 –...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Victoria Falls and Zambezi National Parks

The borders of both National Parks are partly shaped by the Zambezi River which also forms the...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Angwa (Ongoe) – Afro-Portuguese Feira sites in Mashonaland West

IntroductionIn August 1945, the same month that the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Matabeleland in 1871 to obtain a written mineral concession from Lobengula and his return through the Limpopo Valley - Part 3

In May 1871 Baines set out once again to obtain a written concession from Lobengula, the London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Shamva

Shamva was originally called Abercorn, after James Hamilton, the second Duke of Abercorn (1838-1913...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.