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The naturalist Frank Oates who visited the Victoria Falls on 31 December 1874 and died only 36 days later of fever

Frank Oates (1840 - 1875) was the quintessential Victorian naturalist; his discoveries are...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Zimbabwe’s Game Rangers on the front-line of the fight against the illegal wildlife trade and poaching

This article pays homage to the Game Rangers, both men and women from government agencies such as...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Examining how the author Richard Nicklin Hall (1853-1914) justified his thesis that Zimbabwe’s gold mines were dug in ancient times by foreign miners

IntroductionHall’s thesis that the gold mines found throughout then Southern Rhodesia, now...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Hurungwe and Charara Safari Areas

This hunting area is situated in the Kariba eastern basin and extends from the Zambezi River at...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

The June 1896 Mazoe Patrol skirmish with detailed accounts from those besieged and their Mashona attackers

GPS LocationsAlice Mine laager 17°30´44"S 30°57´33"EFort Mazoe 17...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Kenneth Kaunda who died on 17 June 2021 aged 97; the last of Africa’s true Independence leaders and one of the few that stepped down

Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia following Zambia’s independence in 1964 and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

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.