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An 1886 journey through the Bechuanaland Protectorate along the Western Old Lake Route to the Victoria Falls that nearly ended in disaster

The book by Alfred James Bethell is compiled from a series of articles that he wrote up for The...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Giraffe Petroglyph at Mtetengwe

The term petroglyph is generally used to denote San rock engravings which have been pecked, incised...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

A veteran’s account from the Battle of Bembesi in 1893 and when Joe Smith knocked down Cecil Rhodes and saved his life in 1896

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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

By Zeederberg Coach to Bulawayo in 1895

Mrs RA Fletcher of Umvutcha Farm[1] near Bulawayo with two children, one aged 2 years and the other...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and “my last hunt” to Hartley Hills in 1870

Background For biographical details see the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.