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Malaria kills a child every minute worldwide; will a new vaccine save them?

Some Key Facts about MalariaGlobally in 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases and...

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Other

Province:

Harare

Next year will be better and the verse of ‘T’

Hylda Richards and her husband Tom farmed in Kent before the tobacco boom of the mid 1920’s...

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Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Africa’s National Parks in the midst of a pandemic-induced conservation crisis

An improving wildlife situation prior to COVID-19In the last few years there have been lots of...

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Other

Province:

Harare

The Railway comes to Bulawayo – the town’s festivities in November 1897

The railway reached Bulawayo at about 3pm on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 October 1897. On that day...

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Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Arcturus village

Arcturus the nameThere are a number of articles on place names in Zimbabwe, but none mention the...

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Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Cecil House (1901)GPS Reference: 17⁰49′29.08″S 31⁰03′01.28″E2 Central...

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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.