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Pink Elephants

Pink Elephants comprises six faded pink elephants high above an overhanging shelter at the summit...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

The importance of the Ancestors and the installation of a Chief

By Mlambo Manyezu MathiasThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Northern Cave

The Northern Cave at Chikupo has a short steep and slippery slope on the western...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 1)

IntroductionThis article relies on a survey carried out by J.K.G. Borcherds, B.Arch., RIBA in...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The adventures and hardships of a shooting trip to Barotseland and the Victoria Falls in 1875 – 76

The following account is from the diary[i] of Norman MacLeod (entries are in Italics) and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.