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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 3)

Strickland’s Store; subsequently the Police Station and then Charter Post Office AgencyJohn...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

The Newton Commission conclusions on the ‘Victoria incident’

IntroductionThe events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’ are included in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 4 of 5 - From Palapye, formerly Palachwe, to Massi-Kessi, now Manica)

30 March 1892. We reached Palachwe, present-day Palapye, the main town of the Mangwato (referred to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe in antique maps of South Eastern Africa

In Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia, a general atlas of the world is the first map of Africa....

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

IntroductionThis article does not attempt to describe in any detail all the feiras that were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Sapi, Chewore, Dande and Doma Safari Areas

These hunting areas are all to the east and south east of Mana Pools National Park, but they do...

Category:

Game Park

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.