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Esigodini (formerly Essexvale)

Esigodini is a village situated on the A6 National road to Beit Bridge and on the branch line from...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Mashona Rebellion / First Chimurenga 1896-7 graves at Old Marandellas (Ruzawi Cemetery)

Most of the material for this article comes from R. Hodder-Williams’ very useful articles in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Bushtick Mine, now the location for Falcon College, the independent boarding school in Matabeleland

Bushtick Mine, now the location for Falcon College, the independent boarding school in...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Matabeleland South

Chewore Safari Area Dinosaur footprint Sites

These notes have their origin in the Field Excursion Guidebook prepared by Dr. Ali Ait-Kaci for a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

An analysis of Roora

By Jaison AndifasiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

IntroductionThis article does not attempt to describe in any detail all the feiras that were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.