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Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Some backgroundThomas Leask (1839 – 1912) was born at Aglath, Stenness in the Orkney Islands...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Nyunteya Cave & Grain Bins

Grain-bins are relatively common in the Matobo Hills, a World Heritage Site in south western...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Hanging Tree

Lyn Mullin writes that the hanging tree is an average-sized specimen of a false Marula, or Lannea...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Gaika Mine Manager’s house

Que Que (now Kwekwe) was originally called Sebakwe after the nearby river, but as the name was...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Old Umtali – the second site

The name "Umtali" is derived from the African word “Mutare" meaning”...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Next year will be better and the verse of ‘T’

Hylda Richards and her husband Tom farmed in Kent before the tobacco boom of the mid 1920’s...

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.