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Macheke Rock Paintings

In a 2014 newspaper article Cathy Buckle visited these rock paintings to show them to a foreign...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Victoria Falls and Zambezi National Parks

The borders of both National Parks are partly shaped by the Zambezi River which also forms the...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Colin Harding – the man in charge of the execution of Chief Chingaira Makoni – his life and career in early Rhodesia

Edwin Colin Harding had a very distinguished career being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

The story behind Derick Hoste who died of blackwater fever at Hartley Hills in 1893

Henry Francis “Skipper” Hoste was one of the older officers when at the age of 37 he...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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

The Selous Road from Fort Salisbury to Old Mutare and beyond

The Selous Road from Fort Salisbury to Old Mutare and beyondSelous cut many roads in Matabeleland,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.