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Pink Elephants

Pink Elephants comprises six faded pink elephants high above an overhanging shelter at the summit...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.

The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.Like Antonio Fernandes, Silveira was one of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Chisvingo and Nhunguza monuments, Masembura Communal Lands

Chisvingo Ruins are located in the Masembura Communal Lands in Mashonaland. The name comes from the...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Fort Haynes and the fight at Chief Chingaira Makoni’s Kraal

In June 1896 the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga broke out.Four companies of mounted infantry...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Frederick Courteney Selous’ hunting trips from 1876 – 1885 with records from his original game book

BackgroundFrederick Courteney Selous needs no introduction to readers interested in the history of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Transparency International’s latest Index of Public Services Corruption

Transparency International released the latest version of their annual Corruption Perceptions Index...

Category:

Cultural

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.