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Iron Mine Hill (Ntabasinsimbe) and the first casualty of the 1893 Matabele War

Situated some 58 kilometres from Gweru on the railway line to Masvingo is a remote siding called...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

A look at present-day Marula, between Bulawayo and Plumtree

Marula owes its existence to the railway line. Early locomotives were steam powered and coal...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Update on Matusadonha National Park

Great news for Zimbabweans as conservation efforts aim to restore the wildlife at this National...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask’s elephant hunting trip to Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 from his diary

IntroductionThomas Leask made the following journeys into the interior: Bechuanaland (1865)...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Murehwa Cave

The site is within a large domed cave with recesses to the left and right of the main cave and has...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Marange Diamonds – Zimbabwe’s natural resource stolen from the nation

AcknowledgmentsMuch of the basic content of this article owes its origin and details to the work...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

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.