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When is the sickening trade in Lions going to be banned?

IntroductionMost of the information for this article comes from four articles in the Daily Maverick...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

O.C. Rawson (1874 – 1953) of Darwendale

The following story of Otto Christian Rawson[i] ‘O.C.'s’ early life in Darwendale...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Zimbabwe on International Vulture Awareness Day – 4 September 2021

Vultures like hyenas, get a bad pressVultures are often perceived as lowly scavengers, but...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Chizarira National Park

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

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Article – When Bulawayo was young

This article comprises items in brief from early newspapers included in the Occupation of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Anglo Boer War graves at Paradise Plot Cemetery, Marondera

Most soldiers contracted fever in the unhealthy swamps of PEA and received medical attention at the...

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.