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Vasco Fernandes Homem and the search for the Mutapa state’s fabled gold mines 1574-5

SourcesMuch of the detailed information used here and in the article on Francisco Barreto is taken...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Pit Structures

The number of pit structures that have been found is estimated to number into many hundreds. They...

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Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Henry Borrow, after whom Borrowdale is named

AcknowledgementsA number of authors have used Henry Borrow’s letters in the past with...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukele, 1896)

The Memorial is situated to the west of the Shangani River Bridge and it’s a mystery why it...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Great Dance or Inxwala Festival

Background to the Great DanceThe Inxwala, or Great Ceremony, usually called the Great Dance, in the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

An Introduction to the significance of Mapungubwe

Background to MapungubweMapungubwe Hill was first investigated in 1932 by a local farmer, E.S.J....

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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.