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Penhalonga Church

Penhalonga Church is aligned east – west, with the sanctuary in the east and the Church porch...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Rinderpest

Most of the following article is abbreviated from Frank W. Sykes' book: With Plumer in...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

La Rochelle Country House and Spa, a National Trust of Zimbabwe property

During World War I Stephen Courtauld was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

Cross Kopje, Mutare

C.M. Hulley in his fascinating History of Manicaland states; “everyone has admired the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

No women were included amongst the Pioneers, but it soon became clear they would be needed for...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Harare

The story of a Trooper’s experiences in the Imperial Yeomanry and Rhodesia Field Force during the second Boer War 1899 - 1902

Boer War disasters for the British Army resulted in the formation of the Imperial YeomanryThe...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.