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Ziwa Ruins and Site Museum (formerly Van Niekerk Ruins)

On Google Maps from an eye altitude of 1.7KM the enclosure circles and terracing are clearly...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

The story of a Trooper’s experiences in the Imperial Yeomanry and Rhodesia Field Force during the second Boer War 1899 - 1902

Boer War disasters for the British Army resulted in the formation of the Imperial YeomanryThe...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

The Southern Column’s skirmish at the Singuesi river on 2 November 1893 revisited

Why has so little been written about the Southern Column’s campaign?Many readers may not be...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Chimanimani National Park

Although the entire mountain range of about 50 kilometres is called the Chimanimani, the name...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

The 1903 Ivel Agricultural Motor No 141 in the Mutare Museum; one of only seven that still exist today

Author Photo courtesy of the Mutare Museum: 1903 Ivel Agricultural Motor No 141.Why is the Ivel...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

World's View, Nyanga

There are a three small dams, or what would be lochs in Scotland, on Little Connemara, the largest...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

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.