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Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Was Archibald Ross Colquhoun; first Administrator of Mashonaland 1890 – 92, a failure or was he actively undermined by Dr Jameson?

In his article ‘Colquhoun in Mashonaland: A Portrait of Failure’ in Rhodesiana...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Nyangombe Natural Swimming Pool / Falls

The rocks are slippery and care should be exercised when walking on them.Close to the Nyangombe...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Group Captain Harold Walmsley, Spitfire ace who destroyed at least 11 enemy aircraft; trained at Belvedere and Cranborne air stations during WWII and was an instructor at Heany air station afterwards – Obituary

Harold Walmsley who died on 4 April 2021 aged 98 years has an obituary that is note-worthy for at...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Old Umtali – the second site

The name "Umtali" is derived from the African word “Mutare" meaning”...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

The pub was a neat and tidy timber bar of English style with posts reaching up to support shelving...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

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.