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Early traveller’s impressions of Gubulawayo

A map of the approximate positions of the amaNdebele royal kraals of Kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Vere Stent’s recollections of Raaff’s Rangers and the Southern Column in 1893

Who was Vere Stent?Vere Palgrave Stent (1872-1941) was a journalist and war correspondent...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Fort Que Que (now Kwekwe)

Background In late March 1896 many isolated prospectors and traders were killed in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 3)

Strickland’s Store; subsequently the Police Station and then Charter Post Office AgencyJohn...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

The Naletale Monument (or Nharatare “straight-line “or Nhandare “stadium”)

Section of entrance walling at...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Midlands

Photographs taken by the Reverend F.H. Surridge during the Pioneer Column’s 1890 trek into Mashonaland

Background to Reverend F.H. SurridgeReverend Frank Harold Surridge (10 June 1862 – 4 May 1947...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

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.