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Rock Art at Glen Norah East & West

Glen Norah East – “Bridge paintings”Elizabeth Goodall calls this frieze “...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

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Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Bats are not to blame for COVID-19; Chinese wildlife farms are and what the next pandemic might look like

The precise origin of the COVID-19 virus that has wreaked such health problems and high death rates...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Operation Noah Memorial

Few outside of conservation circles know the name Rupert Fothergill today, or remember the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Harare’s Historic buildings – Robert Mugabe Road (formerly Manica Road)

Meikles BuildingsThe Meikle Brothers came to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1892. Stewart opened a...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

First treks into Manicaland

One of the earliest groups of trekkers was Laurence van der Byl and his party of twenty five young...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.