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How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

BackgroundMuch of the material quoted below is sourced from the comprehensive articles by Ana Roque...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Great Zimbabwe, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

Great Zimbabwe is undoubtedly sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most imposing early dry-stone...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Gaika Mine Manager’s house

Que Que (now Kwekwe) was originally called Sebakwe after the nearby river, but as the name was...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Gambarimwe Cave

Top left is the largest camp scene with a many couples accompanied by children, their bags and...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Mambo Rebellion Memorial – with three oral history accounts collected by Foster Windram in 1936 and 1938 concerning the killings at West’s store

For the associated articles on the battle of Ntaba zika Mambo and the Manyanga Monument ruins and...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Cecil House (1901)GPS Reference: 17⁰49′29.08″S 31⁰03′01.28″E2 Central...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

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.