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Rock Art at Glen Norah East & West

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

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Zvipadze Monument (formerly known as Harleigh Farm Ruin)

The San rock art paintings nearby are underneath an overhang that looks like a giant granite...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Old Jesuit Mission

In 1879 the Jesuits made arrangements to establish missions to the north of the Limpopo River and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Eton and Cambridge (1859 – 1881)Hubert Hervey was born on 19 May 1859 at Eaton Place, London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Orbicular Granite Formation

The black and white objects within the rock are called orbicules and the mass of mostly ellipsoidal...

Category:

Scenic, Geological

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.