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Cattle: the life-blood of Shona Society

By Fidelis Bere-Chikara These stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Zimbabwe on International Vulture Awareness Day – 4 September 2021

Vultures like hyenas, get a bad pressVultures are often perceived as lowly scavengers, but...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Kariba Dam construction

The concrete arch dam is 128 metres high and 633 metres along the crest. For many years the site on...

Category:

Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

Examining the background of Poachers

This article takes its inspiration from a report by Sadé Moneron, Adam Armstrong and David Newton...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Sharing and family unity

By Lamech MhondoroThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

The pub was a neat and tidy timber bar of English style with posts reaching up to support shelving...

Category:

Cultural

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.