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The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

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Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Poaching and recent trophy hunting controversy

PoachingThe current poaching situation has reached crisis proportions in many countries of the...

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Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Dengeni Cave

The most unusual feature of the shelter is a red and white painted line that emerges from a natural...

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Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Chamavara Cave

Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings; an article on their extent and meaning

This article on Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings (often referred to in older writings as...

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Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Roora and Marriage

By Lydia JanhiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...

Category:

Cultural

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.