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Two of Lobengula’s Relics

The fortieth anniversary of the occupation of Matabeleland was commemorated by an official...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Baden-Powell in Matabeleland during 1896 where he learned the principles of Scouting

IntroductionRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 1941) (he pronounced his...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The National Archives

The displays in the Upstairs Gallery cover a number of topics relevant to Zimbabwe’s history...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Poaching and recent trophy hunting controversy

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

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Bambata Cave

The great cave of Bambata, a major archaeological site and discovered by Neville Jones in 1917, has...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His first journey described from 16 February 1870 to 9 January 1871 (Vol 2)

IntroductionThis synopsis is taken from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.