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Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 3 of 5 - From Sesheke to Bamangwato, including the Victoria Falls)

31 January 1892. We made a long run today, from 7am until we reached Sesheke where Dr Livingstone...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

World's View, Nyanga

There are a three small dams, or what would be lochs in Scotland, on Little Connemara, the largest...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

The development of the Mineral industry

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

The story of a Trooper’s experiences in the Imperial Yeomanry and Rhodesia Field Force during the second Boer War 1899 - 1902

Boer War disasters for the British Army resulted in the formation of the Imperial YeomanryThe...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Makumbe Cave and Lower Makumbe Cave

Makumbe CavePeter Garlake thinks that the immense Makumbe cave, 100 metres wide by 30 metres deep...

Category:

Scenic, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

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.