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Tsindi Ruins (formerly called Lekkerwater Ruins)

Peter Garlake reminds us that that stone enclosures, such as we see at Tsindi Hill, served a...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

The First Pioneers of Matabeleland; notes on the early Missionaries by Sir Robert Tredgold

This article was written by Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold[1] and was published within the Occupation...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Adendorff trek and the planned invasion of Banyailand

BackgroundThe Adendorff or Banyailand trek was made up of Afrikaners who ...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

The build-up to the 1893 Matabele War

This article forms one of a series of six articles covering the 1893 Matabele War. It begins with...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Mucheka Cave

(1) Outside the cave two hunters carry a pole whilst two others engage in a stylised fight which...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

James Theodore Bent and Mabel Virginia Anna Bent gave many artefacts to the British Museum from Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) collected during and after their excavation at Great Zimbabwe in 1891

IntroductionThe story of the Bents’ excavation at Great Zimbabwe is told in the article The...

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.