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Devil’s Pass and Fort Watts

Fort Watts and Castle Zonga EstateThe position of Fort Watts was given by Mike...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Modern humans originated from Botswana, the ancestral homeland for all anatomically modern humans today, but left due to climate change

Three hundred kilometres south of Victoria Falls are the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana – a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Angwa (Ongoe) – Afro-Portuguese Feira sites in Mashonaland West

IntroductionIn August 1945, the same month that the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Bvumba Mountains

A few kilometres outside Mutare, the road to the Bvumba starts its scenic climb, winding...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Thomas Baines’ disastrous 1858-9 Zambezi Expedition with David Livingstone

The Zambezi expedition There is no consistency in the Victorian descriptions of the 1858-9 Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

No women were included amongst the Pioneers, but it soon became clear they would be needed for...

Category:

Historic, Building

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.