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Mutare (formerly Umtali)

Mutare (previously known as Umtali) is Zimbabwe's third largest city with a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

The June 1896 Mazoe Patrol skirmish with detailed accounts from those besieged and their Mashona attackers

GPS LocationsAlice Mine laager 17°30´44"S 30°57´33"EFort Mazoe 17...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

When is the sickening trade in Lions going to be banned?

IntroductionMost of the information for this article comes from four articles in the Daily Maverick...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Richard Frewen, the man who annoyed Lobengula and the consequent deaths of the Colonial government emissaries on their way to the Victoria Falls

Frewen’s journal was copied from the original into a manuscript volume along with many of his...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

John Bradburne – the former warden at Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre, a candidate for Sainthood?

Born on 14 June 1921 in Cumbria, England, his father was an Anglican clergyman. When World War...

Category:

Cultural, Other

Province:

Mashonaland East

Rock Art at Glen Norah East & West

Glen Norah East – “Bridge paintings”Elizabeth Goodall calls this frieze “...

Category:

Rock Art

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.