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Our Covered Wagon Heroines

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The adventures and hardships of a shooting trip to Barotseland and the Victoria Falls in 1875 – 76

The following account is from the diary[i] of Norman MacLeod (entries are in Italics) and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Mzilikazi Memorial

The Memorial is on the site of Mzilikazi's royal town of Mhlahlandleia after he left Inyati and...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Selous House (near Esigodini)

Amongst the most renowned of the big game hunters including Baldwin, Cumming, Finaughty, Hartley,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Gonarezhou National Park to receive $1million-a-year from new Wildlife Fund

Gonarezhou[i] is Zimbabwe’s second-largest National Park has been selected to receive US$1...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

The Bent’s archaeological expedition to Great Zimbabwe in 1891 and the prominent part played by Mabel Bent

SourceMuch of the information in this article comes from the very comprehensive website Theodore...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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.