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The Restaurant that never took off

Viscount C/N 436 V.816 seriesDateNo. Sep-59VH-TVSfirst flight from Hurn Airport, Bournemouth...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland West

1896-7 Rebellion Memorials

Why is this article relevant?Recently the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo managed to...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Old Fort Hartley and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Below is a general map at 1:250,000 scale showing the principal places of interest referred to in...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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

Vasco Fernandes Homem and the search for the Mutapa state’s fabled gold mines 1574-5

SourcesMuch of the detailed information used here and in the article on Francisco Barreto is taken...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Extracts from Frank Oates’ ox-wagon journey in 1873 from Tati to Gubulawayo

Extracts from Frank Oates’ ox-wagon journey in 1873 from Tati to GubulawayoFrank Oates (1840...

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.