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Arcturus village

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

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Hot Springs

The Rupisi Hot Springs are at the headwaters of the Rupisi River, about twenty miles in a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

Origins and legends of the Shona-speaking people

By Samuel GudzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Fort Rixon Rebellion Memorial (Matabele Uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

The memorial names the following civilians on the north face:To the memory of James Cunningham, his...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Rock Art at Glen Norah East & West

Glen Norah East – “Bridge paintings”Elizabeth Goodall calls this frieze “...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Harare

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

This article is intended to provide an overview of the route and the men who made the journey in...

Category:

Historic

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.