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Claremont Soapstone Sculptors

The farm kiosk selling jam, chutneys and vegetables is also highly recommended

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Thetford Game Reserve Rock Art Site

Background to the rock art in ZimbabweZimbabwe has one of the highest concentrations of rock...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1870 after Lobengula granted a verbal mineral concession and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 2

IntroductionPart 2 covers the journey Baines made to the northern goldfields for the second time in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The inauspicious start to Herbert Taylor’s thirty-three year career as Chief Native Commissioner

SourceThe bulk of the information in this article is summarised from Roger Howman’s article...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The Beira and Mashonaland Railway – the Contractor’s stories

The railway was an important element of the country’s development and many excellent articles...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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

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.