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Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Eton and Cambridge (1859 – 1881)Hubert Hervey was born on 19 May 1859 at Eaton Place, London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Diana's Vow

Elizabeth Goodall whose superb paintings of rock sites are kept at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

Harare Toposcope

Visits to the Harare Toposcope are best avoided. Skipper Hoste Drive that visitors use to drive up...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Harare

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

Avondale and the story of Countess Billie

AvondaleEdward O’Connell Farrell (1850 – 1910)Edward O’Connell Farrell, a pioneer...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Anglo Boer War graves at Paradise Plot Cemetery, Marondera

Most soldiers contracted fever in the unhealthy swamps of PEA and received medical attention at the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.