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Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869 / 70 – background and travel by ox-wagon to Tati

IntroductionMuch of the biographic information below is from the excellent book Thomas Baines of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The build-up to the 1893 Matabele War

This article forms one of a series of six articles covering the 1893 Matabele War. It begins with...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Vere Stent’s recollections of Raaff’s Rangers and the Southern Column in 1893

Who was Vere Stent?Vere Palgrave Stent (1872-1941) was a journalist and war correspondent...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Percy Clark in his book Autobiography of an Old Drifter tells how Charles Fox, nephew of Sir...

Category:

Scenic, Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland North

Utopia House, Mutare

Part of the antiquities collection of the Mutare Museum is displayed at Utopia House, the old...

Category:

Building

Province:

Manicaland

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

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.