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Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 4 of 5 - From Palapye, formerly Palachwe, to Massi-Kessi, now Manica)

30 March 1892. We reached Palachwe, present-day Palapye, the main town of the Mangwato (referred to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Dambarare – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site

The Portuguese explorer Pêro da Covilhã first visited Sofala in 1489 and by 1505 they were given...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second largest town after the capital Harare; it is twinned with...

Category:

Cultural, Historic, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

This rotten Law does Zimbabwe no credit at all; Tendai Biti says, “Not even Apartheid Rhodesia passed such repugnant law”

How did this oppressive piece of legislation come about?At the same time as President Mnangagwa...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 3 of 5 - From Sesheke to Bamangwato, including the Victoria Falls)

31 January 1892. We made a long run today, from 7am until we reached Sesheke where Dr Livingstone...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Nyahokwe Village

Evidence from excavations carried out on site show there has been occupation from hunter-gatherer...

Category:

Ruins

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.