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Frederick “Freddy” Hugh Barber, hunter, trader, artist – visited the Victoria Falls in 1875 and Matabeleland in 1877

The narrative is taken from the book Zambezia and Matabeleland in the Seventies published in 1960...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Antelope Park

The 1,200 hectare private game park offers a wide variety of activities suitable for all ages and...

Category:

Game Park, Other

Province:

Midlands

Group Captain Harold Walmsley, Spitfire ace who destroyed at least 11 enemy aircraft; trained at Belvedere and Cranborne air stations during WWII and was an instructor at Heany air station afterwards – Obituary

Harold Walmsley who died on 4 April 2021 aged 98 years has an obituary that is note-worthy for at...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Kingsley Fairbridge – who was he?

Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (1885-1924), was the founder of a child emigration scheme to British...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

World’s View Matobo, Rhodes’ grave and the Shangani Memorial

Cecil Rhodes, Dr Leander Starr Jameson, Charles P.J. Coghlan, Allan Wilson and the remains of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Arcturus village

Arcturus the nameThere are a number of articles on place names in Zimbabwe, but none mention the...

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.