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Quentin Barnett’s childhood memories of life at Widgeon Ranch, Felixburg, Rhodesia 1956-1971

My Grandfather, Thomas Wilkie Barnett, died on Alanberry Farm (neighbouring Widgeon Ranch) in March...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Thetford Game Reserve

If there is only the time for half a day’s game drive, then Thetford Game Reserve, which...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Hot Springs

The Rupisi Hot Springs are at the headwaters of the Rupisi River, about twenty miles in a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

Utopia House, Mutare

Part of the antiquities collection of the Mutare Museum is displayed at Utopia House, the old...

Category:

Building

Province:

Manicaland

The British South Africa Company – establishing an administration in the early days of the occupation of Mashonaland

IntroductionThe core of this article is a paper by Honest Elias Koke entitled Unfulfilled Promises...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

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.