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This rotten Law does Zimbabwe no credit at all; Tendai Biti says, “Not even Apartheid Rhodesia passed such repugnant law”

How did this oppressive piece of legislation come about?At the same time as President Mnangagwa...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Trek Memorial, Chimanimani (formerly Melsetter)

The original village of Chimanimani was founded by Thomas Moodie in 1892, but in 1895 it moved...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Northern Cave

The Northern Cave at Chikupo has a short steep and slippery slope on the western...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) Recreational Park

The Recreational Park is 16,900 hectares in extent of which 9,300 hectares are occupied by Lake...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

An explanation for the Y-shaped rock art motifs found on Nottingham Estate in the Limpopo-Shashi Valley

Introduction This article relies heavily on two articles by Geoffrey Blundell[1] and Edward B....

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe at Bulawayo

The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe came into being in 1901 as the Rhodesian Museum before being...

Category:

Cultural, Geological, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.