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National Heroes Acre

The grandiose obelisk of National heroes Acre or simply Heroes' Acre, overlooking the town, was...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Harare

Could this breakthrough ‘that changes the course of public health history’ help Zimbabwe defeat the menace of malaria?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the go-ahead for the launch of an effective malaria...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

IntroductionThis article does not attempt to describe in any detail all the feiras that were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Jack Parsonson – War ace and one of Mashonaland Country District’s most colourful characters

Original draft by Doug McClymontJack Parsonson was shot down three times - first, by Afrika Corps...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Chinhoyi (formerly Sinoia) Caves is a National Monument and in 1975 was designated as a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

Zimbabwe Military Museum

The Zimbabwe Military Museum began with a collection of historic aircraft stored at Thornhill Air...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

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.