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Chizarira National Park

The name Chizarira comes from the Batonga “chijalila,” or “sijalila”...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

The system of Local Government in Southern Rhodesia

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1928)

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1828) first commander of what became...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Manyanga (formerly Ntaba zika Mambo) Monument ruins

The dry-stone buildings of Manyanga Monument ruins have been little described in the literature;...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Matabeleland North

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...

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Other

Province:

Manicaland

The Traveller’s Tree

Lyn Mullin in his Historic Trees of Zimbabwe describes this large hollow baobab tree, Adansonia...

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Other

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.