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St Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mutirikwi, the smallest chapel in Zimbabwe

In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...

Category:

Building

Province:

Masvingo

An 1886 journey through the Bechuanaland Protectorate along the Western Old Lake Route to the Victoria Falls that nearly ended in disaster

The book by Alfred James Bethell is compiled from a series of articles that he wrote up for The...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Reminiscences of Percy Durban Crewe of Nantwich Ranch, Hwange

IntroductionThe notes below are from the handwritten reminiscences of Percy Crewe (1862 –...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Nottingham Fly Camp

Driving from Nottingham Retreat to the...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland South

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869/70: His first journey described in his diaries from Tati on 4 June 1869 until the 15 February 1870 (Vol 1)

IntroductionJ.P.R. Wallis in his introduction to Volume 1 of the Northern Goldfield Diaries of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Railway comes to Bulawayo – the town’s festivities in November 1897

The railway reached Bulawayo at about 3pm on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 October 1897. On that day...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

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.