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The Loyal Women’s Guild and the Pioneer Memorial Crosses

In the five years of writing articles for my website, I have come across a few of the remaining...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Khami – capital of the Torwa state

Khami is spread over a 180 hectare area along the Khami River, with the site comprised of 14...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Bulawayo

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

Nottingham Retreat

The dirt road to Nottingham Retreat from the Beitbridge - Bulawayo A6 National road is in great...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Kirby family and their Salvation Army connection in early Rhodesia with the Usher Institute from 1946 and the Tshelanyemba Institute in the Semokwe Reserve from 1948 – 1954 followed by international assignments in Northern Rhodesia, present-day Zambia

Part 1 of 2 is under Mashonaland Central.Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Letters from the Siege of Ladysmith by Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe

Background The article Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

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.