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Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Ewanrigg Botanical Garden – a tribute to its creator Basil Christian

Author photo; the National A13 road from Harare to EwanriggEwanrigg’s...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland East

World Wildlife Crime Report – Pangolins

IntroductionThis article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

White Rhino Shelter – Matobo National Park

Cran Cooke in his introduction to the rockart of the Matobo / Bulawayo area writes that that the...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Chirinda Forest and the Big Tree

Local communities call this patch of forest Tshirinda or 'Refuge', and within its embrace...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Giraffe Petroglyph at Mtetengwe

The term petroglyph is generally used to denote San rock engravings which have been pecked, incised...

Category:

Rock Art

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.