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The death of Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917)

IntroductionThis article concentrates on the end of Selous’ life. Two names on the Great War...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Zambezi Society

The Zambezi Society( www.zamsoc.org) conserving the wildlife and wilderness values of the...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

National Heroes Acre

The grandiose obelisk of National heroes Acre or simply Heroes' Acre, overlooking the town, was...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Harare

Mort's Tree

With a height of 22 metres and crown spread of 24 metres in 1988, this magnificent tree must have...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Ngomakurira

The stiff hike up the adjoining mountain, which is much more arduous than Domboshawa, is well...

Category:

Scenic, Geological, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

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

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.