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Pieter Lourens van der Byl’s grave at Mona Farm

The van der Byl trek of 1891 was sponsored as part of the policy to unite Boers and British in the...

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Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

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Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Forbes’ retreat down the Shangani river in December 1893

For background information on the incidents leading up to this event read the article James Dawson...

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Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

No women were included amongst the Pioneers, but it soon became clear they would be needed for...

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Historic, Building

Province:

Harare

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Chinhoyi (formerly Sinoia) Caves is a National Monument and in 1975 was designated as a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

Rhodes’ Three Peace Indabas

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.