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Why did Portugal establish bases on the East African Coast, now Mozambique in the early sixteenth Century?

IntroductionA number of historical articles on the Portuguese in Mozambique have been written in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

The Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Pioneer Cemetery reads: ...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Shamva

Shamva was originally called Abercorn, after James Hamilton, the second Duke of Abercorn (1838-1913...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Nswatugi Cave - rock art paintings

The name Nswatugi is from the Karanga word 'svetuka' meaning “the place of...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Shona Religion

By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Mutare (formerly Umtali)

Mutare (previously known as Umtali) is Zimbabwe's third largest city with a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

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.