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Zvipadze Monument (formerly known as Harleigh Farm Ruin)

The San rock art paintings nearby are underneath an overhang that looks like a giant granite...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Postal service in 1890 – 1892; the post-stations from Fort Tuli to Salisbury

Much of the detail, particularly quotes, contained below comes from the article by Dave Collis...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Mutarazi Falls National Park

Only 11.5 Kilometres from Pungwe Falls, the Mutarazi Falls is located in the 2,495 hectare Mutarazi...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Rhodes Nyanga Historical Exhibition

The Museum building itself, now known as Rhodes’ stables was built by a stonemason, R. Marks...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Mary Blackwood Lewis’s letters on her journey to Mashonaland from Beira 1897-1901

Letter from Beira dated October 15th 1897The most amazing thing happened the other day. I am with...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Battle of Ntaba zika Mambo, Manyanga or Mambo Hills

In addition to the above names, the battle is also called Thabas Amamba, or Thabas a Mambo,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.