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Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1869 that resulted in a mineral concession granted by Lobengula and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 1

IntroductionMany readers might think that Karl Mauch was the first to discover the Mashona...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Hope Fountain Mission

Background and establishment of the first Mission station at Inyati (now Inyathi)The Rev. Robert...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Traditional Ceremonies which persist

By Dominic M. MandazaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Maramuca, a Portuguese Feira dating from 1660 - 1680

There a number of direct and indirect nineteenth century references to the feira at Maramuca. In...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

By Zeederberg Coach to Bulawayo in 1895

Mrs RA Fletcher of Umvutcha Farm[1] near Bulawayo with two children, one aged 2 years and the other...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

National Botanical Gardens

Over 900 trees and shrubs of Zimbabwe are carefully grouped in sections to show the...

Category:

Scenic, 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.