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Pungwe Falls

The Pungwe River has its source in a swamp high in the Nyanga Hills, where as a small perennial...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Traditional Leaders in Zimbabwe are still seen as influential, but in all provinces citizens overwhelmingly want them to stay out of politics

Background: Masvingo High Court rules that traditional leaders should stay out of partisan...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Mutare Main Park Aloe Gardens

The original bold outline of the Main Park with its central boulevard and supporting...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

The naturalist Frank Oates who visited the Victoria Falls on 31 December 1874 and died only 36 days later of fever

Frank Oates (1840 - 1875) was the quintessential Victorian naturalist; his discoveries are...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Anglo Boer War graves at Paradise Plot Cemetery, Marondera

Most soldiers contracted fever in the unhealthy swamps of PEA and received medical attention at the...

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.