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The Mutapa (Mwenemutapa, Monomotapa) State in its heyday c.1480 – c.1623

IntroductionThe article The Rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Thetford Game Reserve Rock Art Site

Background to the rock art in ZimbabweZimbabwe has one of the highest concentrations of rock...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Why did Portugal establish bases on the East African Coast, now Mozambique in the early sixteenth Century?

IntroductionA number of historical articles on the Portuguese in Mozambique have been written in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Zeederberg Coach Company and the first passenger services into the country

Doel Zeederberg used passenger coaches built by the Abbot Downing Company based in Concord, the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The Great Dance or Inxwala Festival

Background to the Great DanceThe Inxwala, or Great Ceremony, usually called the Great Dance, in the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The Kirby family and their Salvation Army connection in early Rhodesia with the Usher Institute from 1946 and the Tshelanyemba Institute in the Semokwe Reserve from 1948 – 1954 followed by international assignments in Northern Rhodesia, present-day Zambia

Part 1 of 2 is under Mashonaland Central.Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.