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Chinese mining companies are causing turmoil in the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area

Where is the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area?Ask most Zimbabweans if they ever heard of the Mavuradonha...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Murray MacDougall Drive

Murray McDougall travelled into Zimbabwe in 1906 exploring the Lowveld bush and hunting in the...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Masvingo

The story behind Derick Hoste who died of blackwater fever at Hartley Hills in 1893

Henry Francis “Skipper” Hoste was one of the older officers when at the age of 37 he...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Horse riding in the Mavuradonha with Varden Safaris

The horse riding safaris take place about 180 kilometres north of Harare in a very remote area of...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Oh dear, another foiled gold smuggling attempt is linked to the Zimbabwe President’s family

Some months ago, we reported that on 26 October 2020 Henrietta Rushwaya was caught at Robert...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

IntroductionThompson’s parents[1] came to South Africa in 1850, Francis Robert ‘...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.