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Bernard Mizeki Shrine

Bernard Mizeki was born Mamiyeri Mitseka Gwambe in Inhambane, Mozambique in 1861, he left his...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

The Selous Road from Fort Salisbury to Old Mutare and beyond

The Selous Road from Fort Salisbury to Old Mutare and beyondSelous cut many roads in Matabeleland,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Leopard Rock Hotel

Situated thirty kilometres from Mutare by tar road along a spectacular road through the Bvumba...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 1)

IntroductionThis article relies on a survey carried out by J.K.G. Borcherds, B.Arch., RIBA in...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings; an article on their extent and meaning

This article on Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings (often referred to in older writings as...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Early European visitors to Hartley Hills goldfield

William “Curio” Harvey Brown describes how on 1st October 1890 the Pioneers were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.