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Harare’s Historic buildings – Robert Mugabe Road (formerly Manica Road)

Meikles BuildingsThe Meikle Brothers came to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1892. Stewart opened a...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

Crooks Corner

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

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Imire Game Park – Rhino and Wildlife Conservation

Imire makes an easy day trip being just 105 kilometres from Harare and your visit might start with...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland East

The first European Visitors to view the Victoria Falls before the end of 1880

The first European Visitors to view the Victoria Falls before the end of 1880The list below...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The uses of cattle in Shona Society

By Langton DoreThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Africa’s National Parks in the midst of a pandemic-induced conservation crisis

An improving wildlife situation prior to COVID-19In the last few years there have been lots of...

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Other

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.