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Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and “my last hunt” to Hartley Hills in 1870

Background For biographical details see the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

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

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Harare

Frederick “Freddy” Hugh Barber, hunter, trader, artist – visited the Victoria Falls in 1875 and Matabeleland in 1877

The narrative is taken from the book Zambezia and Matabeleland in the Seventies published in 1960...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

World's View, Nyanga

There are a three small dams, or what would be lochs in Scotland, on Little Connemara, the largest...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Domboshava Cave and Hill

The Monument came under the custodianship of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe in 1936....

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

BackgroundMuch of the material quoted below is sourced from the comprehensive articles by Ana Roque...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.