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Major Stabb’s hunting trip in 1875 to the Zambesi Valley via Gubulawayo

IntroductionHenry Stabb’s meticulously kept diary provides a wealth of information on the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His second journey described from 16 May to 30 October 1871 (Vol 3)

IntroductionThis synopsis is taken from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask’s two journeys to the Zambezi in 1868 and 1869

Background For biographical details see the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1869 that resulted in a mineral concession granted by Lobengula and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 1

IntroductionMany readers might think that Karl Mauch was the first to discover the Mashona...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over land reform

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Ivon Fry’s reminiscences of Bulawayo and Lobengula in 1888 – 89

IntroductionIvon Fry’s reminiscences were written down by the Bulawayo Chronicle...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.