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Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journey

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journeyMuch of the detail of the Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Lalapanzi

Lalapanzi is a small village in the Midland province in Zimbabwe. It straddles...

Category:

Geological

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

Mare Dam

Trout fly-fishing is probably the main attraction for many visitors and Inyanga is the only place...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

The 1880 journey of Rev Father Augustus Henry Law S.J. and others to Mzila’s kraal in south-eastern Zimbabwe

AcknowledgementsThe Zambesi Mission itself is comprehensively covered in the book Journey to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

James Dawson’s account of finding the remains of Allan Wilson and his patrol

The final stages of the 1893 occupation of MatabelelandOn 29 October 1893 King Lobengula sent a...

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.