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Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe at Bulawayo

The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe came into being in 1901 as the Rhodesian Museum before being...

Category:

Cultural, Geological, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Wildfires: Zimbabwe’s scourge

The problem of wildfires is not peculiar to Zimbabwe alone, but Zimbabwe does has one of the worst...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Dambarare – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site

The Portuguese explorer Pêro da Covilhã first visited Sofala in 1489 and by 1505 they were given...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Jairos Jiri Association – the legacy of Zimbabwe’s greatest Philanthropist and an inspiration to all Zimbabweans

In the current economic climate where the Government’s priorities are elsewhere, disabled men...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The Victoria Falls Zambesi River sketched on the spot by Thomas Baines F.R.G.S.

Publishers Introduction In this facsimile book, probably the finest edition produced by Books...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Matabeleland North

The development of the Mineral industry

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.