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Nyangombe Natural Swimming Pool / Falls

The rocks are slippery and care should be exercised when walking on them.Close to the Nyangombe...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

The rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450 - c.1480

The first limitation in writing any article on the Mutapa state is the absence of original and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate appealed to Lobengula, King of the amaNdebele for a mineral...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele Rebellion (Umvukela) as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7 and the shooting of the Mlimo

Terence Ranger Obituary (29 Nov 1929 – 3 Jan 2015)In The Guardian Professor Terence ‘...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Manicaland, Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands

In Zimbabwe, this area is known as the "Eastern Highlands." The northernmost area...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Which Zimbabwean individuals and companies have been sanctioned by the USA / UK?

BackgroundIn a recent survey by Afrobarometer[i] which examined Zimbabwean citizens’...

Category:

Cultural

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.