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Cattle and Social Status

By D.H. MakamureThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Utopia House, Mutare

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

Category:

Building

Province:

Manicaland

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Fort Haynes and the fight at Chief Chingaira Makoni’s Kraal

In June 1896 the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga broke out.Four companies of mounted infantry...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journey

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journeyMuch of the detail of the Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Lake Chivero Rock Art

Crocodile RockTo the left of the of the two large crocodiles are a line of ten hunters drawn in...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Harare

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.