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Ranche House (1899) - Ken and Lillian Mew

The large stand of over 5 hectares on the western side of the kopje given to Johnson, Heany and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Harare

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 1)

IntroductionThis article relies on a survey carried out by J.K.G. Borcherds, B.Arch., RIBA in...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Arcturus village

Arcturus the nameThere are a number of articles on place names in Zimbabwe, but none mention the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Giraffe Petroglyph at Mtetengwe

The term petroglyph is generally used to denote San rock engravings which have been pecked, incised...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Cattle and Social Status

By D.H. MakamureThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journey

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journeyMuch of the detail of the Zambezi...

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.