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Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

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

Cross Kopje, Mutare

C.M. Hulley in his fascinating History of Manicaland states; “everyone has admired the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Manyanga (formerly Ntaba zika Mambo) Monument ruins

The dry-stone buildings of Manyanga Monument ruins have been little described in the literature;...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Matabeleland North

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Chinhoyi (formerly Sinoia) Caves is a National Monument and in 1975 was designated as a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

Lake Chivero Rock Art

Crocodile RockTo the left of the of the two large crocodiles are a line of ten hunters drawn in...

Category:

Rock Art

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.