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Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His second journey described from 16 May to 30 October 1871 (Vol 3)

IntroductionThis synopsis is taken from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Orton’s Drift over the Sebakwe River

Below is a Rhodesia 1898 One Penny Duty stamp with an Orton’s Drift Post Office agency...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

The Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Pioneer Cemetery reads: ...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) – a high price was paid in young lives

Much of the information below was originally included in the article The Rhodesia Air Training...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Pit Structures

The number of pit structures that have been found is estimated to number into many hundreds. They...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Sandawana emeralds are amongst the most beautiful and sought after in the world

This article is based upon a number of articles listed in the reference section but most of the...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Midlands

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.