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Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869 / 70 – background and travel by ox-wagon to Tati

IntroductionMuch of the biographic information below is from the excellent book Thomas Baines of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Crooks Corner

When Stephanus Barnard, better known by his Shangaan nickname of Bvekenya "the one who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Kariba Dam construction

The concrete arch dam is 128 metres high and 633 metres along the crest. For many years the site on...

Category:

Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?

What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?A team of international and Chinese...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Manicaland, Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands

In Zimbabwe, this area is known as the "Eastern Highlands." The northernmost area...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Murehwa Cave

The site is within a large domed cave with recesses to the left and right of the main cave and has...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.