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Article – When Bulawayo was young

This article comprises items in brief from early newspapers included in the Occupation of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

A Success story…Zimbabwe relocates wildlife from Savé Valley Conservancy to Sapi Reserve within the Mana-Sapi-Chewore biosphere

The articles on which this is based came from the website of the Journal of African Elephants (...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

How the Ox-Wagon and transport-rider opened up this country

So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869/70: His first journey described in his diaries from Tati on 4 June 1869 until the 15 February 1870 (Vol 1)

IntroductionJ.P.R. Wallis in his introduction to Volume 1 of the Northern Goldfield Diaries of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The old Transport Road

Stanley Portal Hyatt came to Rhodesia on the Great northern Road when railhead was at Palapye...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on 13 September 1890

A summary of his remarkable careerOn 10 December 2014 an important set of medals awarded to...

Category:

Historic

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.