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What is the Chinese Motivation in Zimbabwe?

Introduction – why is Eddie Cross’s article so relevant?The article below by Eddie...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Harare

Chirundu

Chirundu is the border town between Zimbabwe and Zambia with a new one-stop border control ...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Traditional Leaders in Zimbabwe are still seen as influential, but in all provinces citizens overwhelmingly want them to stay out of politics

Background: Masvingo High Court rules that traditional leaders should stay out of partisan...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 3 of 5 - From Sesheke to Bamangwato, including the Victoria Falls)

31 January 1892. We made a long run today, from 7am until we reached Sesheke where Dr Livingstone...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Ngezi Recreational Park

If you need a weekend’s break in the country where you can hear the hippos snorting in the...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Midlands

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.