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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

Bambata Cave - rock art paintings

Description of the archaeological excavations at Bambata CaveBambata cave was first explored in...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Extracts from Frank Oates’ ox-wagon journey in 1873 from Tati to Gubulawayo

Extracts from Frank Oates’ ox-wagon journey in 1873 from Tati to GubulawayoFrank Oates (1840...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Of the men who made up the Pioneer Column Adrian Darter writes: “The Pioneers were men who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The 1880 journey of Rev Father Augustus Henry Law S.J. and others to Mzila’s kraal in south-eastern Zimbabwe

AcknowledgementsThe Zambesi Mission itself is comprehensively covered in the book Journey to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Sharing and family unity

By Lamech MhondoroThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

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.