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Angwa (Ongoe) – Afro-Portuguese Feira sites in Mashonaland West

IntroductionIn August 1945, the same month that the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

EE Burke was the first to try and trace the gravesite of Willie Hartley, who he says died to the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Land and the British South Africa Company - the Renny-Tailyour and Lippert concessions

The article Were Lobengula and the amaNdebele tricked by the Rudd Concession? under Bulawayo on the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

By 1918, British aircraft were capable of carrying a fair load in addition to their crew and the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Sebakwe Recreational Park

Sebakwe Recreational Park is situated in the Midlands of Zimbabwe and is easily accessed by...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Midlands

A Visit to Lobengula at the King’s Kraal or Umvutcha in 1889 – Lieutenant-Colonel H. Vaughn-Williams recalls his stay after 57 years

Introduction Lieut-Col. H. Vaughn-Williams’ book A Visit to Lobengula in...

Category:

Cultural

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.