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What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?

What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?A team of international and Chinese...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Are there cultural links between Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe?

introductionAccording to Thomas Huffman Mapungubwe (meaning ‘Hill of the Jackals’) was...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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

How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

BackgroundMuch of the material quoted below is sourced from the comprehensive articles by Ana Roque...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Victoria Cross (VC) medal recipients connected with this country

The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Madzimudzangara Cave

The paintings are so thickly painted it is quite difficult to disentangle them. Unfortunately...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.