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The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.

The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.Like Antonio Fernandes, Silveira was one of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Strategies for minimising human – elephant conflict in Zimbabwe

Because of ever increasing human growth and encroachment into wildlife habitat, degraded foraging,...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Planet Arcturus railway line

The most comprehensive descriptions of this 2 foot (61 cm) light railway is to be found in Robin...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Utopia House, Mutare

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

Category:

Building

Province:

Manicaland

Zimbabwe’s Game Rangers on the front-line of the fight against the illegal wildlife trade and poaching

This article pays homage to the Game Rangers, both men and women from government agencies such as...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Canned Lion hunting and the horrible trade to the Far East in wild animal parts

The Daily Telegraph on 15 June 2020 carried an editorial promoting Michael Ashcroft’s newly...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.