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Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) – a high price was paid in young lives

Much of the information below was originally included in the article The Rhodesia Air Training...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Zinjanja Monument (formerly Regina Ruins)

Dr. Hans Sauer in Ex Africa published by Geoffrey Bles in 1937 and reprinted by Books of Rhodesia...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Old and the New

By Alois MavenekaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

How Mutare and Manicaland were annexed from the Portuguese

First – a tributeIn carrying out the background research I have been greatly impressed by the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Karl Mauch, explorer and geologist and the man who claimed to be the first European to visit Great Zimbabwe

SummaryKarl Gottlieb Mauch (1837-75) was well-known in Southern Africa as the first European to...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Leopard Rock Hotel

Situated thirty kilometres from Mutare by tar road along a spectacular road through the Bvumba...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

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.