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Manicaland, Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands

In Zimbabwe, this area is known as the "Eastern Highlands." The northernmost area...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Pieter Lourens van der Byl’s grave at Mona Farm

The van der Byl trek of 1891 was sponsored as part of the policy to unite Boers and British in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

Photographs and descriptions of all the principal individuals involved in this article are given in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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

Silozwane Cave - rock art paintings

Why Visit?This great cave was explored in 1908 by F.P. Mennell and E.C. Chubb who took three days...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.