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Mwanga Lodge and Bally Vaughn Bird and Game Sanctuary

Perhaps the best way to enjoy the experience is on a day safari. Situated just 50 kilometres from...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland East

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

EE Burke was the first to try and trace the gravesite of Willie Hartley, who he says died to the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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 1)

IntroductionThis article relies on a survey carried out by J.K.G. Borcherds, B.Arch., RIBA in...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Chinese mining companies are causing turmoil in the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area

Where is the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area?Ask most Zimbabweans if they ever heard of the Mavuradonha...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria)

Masvingo is Zimbabwe's oldest town; the Pioneer Column left from Tuli in the far south of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Reminiscences of Percy Durban Crewe of Nantwich Ranch, Hwange

IntroductionThe notes below are from the handwritten reminiscences of Percy Crewe (1862 –...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.