Popular tourist attractions in Zimbabwe

Harare is located on the northeastern plateau of Zimbabwe, at an altitude of 1472 meters. It is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. Harare means "Sleepless City". The name was transformed from the name of a chief. He has always been vigilant, never slept, and has the spirit of fighting wisdom to defeat the enemy.

Harare is also a European-style modern city with a beautiful environment, neat layout, many parks and green spaces, a pleasant climate, lush vegetation all year round, cool as spring, pleasant all year round, with flowers in full bloom. The streets in the city are crisscrossed, forming countless "wells". The tree-lined boulevards are wide, clean and quiet. A large number of parks and gardens provide a vast space for weekend outings and rest.

The central and southern parts of the city are commercial areas, and the north and east are high-end residential areas. There are small villas with hedges with gardens, lawns and swimming pools, and some luxurious clubs, golf courses and other entertainment venues are interspersed. Harare in the southwest, with low houses and narrow streets, was the place where the colonists used to designate black people.

There is the Victoria Museum in Harare, which houses early indigenous paintings and precious cultural relics unearthed from the "Great Zimbabwe Site." There are also cathedrals, universities, Rufaro Stadium and art galleries.

Greater Zimbabwe Site According to an ancient legend, the Greater Zimbabwe Site is the capital of Queen Shiba. During the 11th to 15th centuries, there was a unique description of the Bantu culture in Shona City. The city, covering an area of nearly 80 hectares, was famous as an important trading center in the Middle Ages.

Zimbabwe was an ancient African country dating back to the 12th century. Some people attribute the spectacular and mysterious stone buildings of Greater Zimbabwe to Queen Sheba, but they are authentic African masterpieces. The word Zimbabwe may have its origin in the Bantu language, meaning "revered stone city."

Indeed, Greater Zimbabwe has many unforgettable ruins of stone structures that have neither plaster nor arches and domes. Greater Zimbabwe remains a mystery to modern people because the irresponsible behavior of some treasure hunters in the 19th century greatly hindered today's archaeological work. These treasure hunters legally ransacked the historical monument in the name of Rhodetti Heritage Development Company.

There are three groups of buildings in Greater Zimbabwe: some early acropolis (or mountain fortresses); oval paddocks (or temples) surrounded by a high stone wall; and various architectural ruins in the river valley between the acropolis and paddocks. The terrain of the site is ideal, with fertile soil and abundant rainfall, which play an important role in the growth and prosperity of a nation.

Early canal explorers in Greater Zimbabwe always believed that these buildings were not built by the Africans themselves, but by other foreign peoples. However, attempts to prove that foreign peoples once lived here have failed, and many materials attempting to prove such views have been denied one by one.

The Kami site was included in the World Heritage List in 1986 according to the Cultural Heritage Selection Criteria CIII)IV). Kami, also the capital of Greater Zimbabwe, was once the capital of Greater Zimbabwe and once flourished; it was abandoned in the mid-16th century. Nowadays, Kami has become an important archaeological destination. It can be inferred from excavations from Europe and China that Kami has a long history of trade.

Greater Zimbabwe was a well-known trade center during the Italian Renaissance. The precious cultural relics unearthed here, such as Spanish silverware, exquisite China porcelain and Portugal porcelain, fully prove that Greater Zimbabwe had extensive world trade exchanges with other countries.

Covering an area of 35 acres, the ancient city of Kami in Greater Zimbabwe is the most eye-catching of the 50 well-known urban sites between the Zambezi River (in southern Africa) and the Forest River. It is also officially recognized as a "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO.

Gonarejo National Park Gonarejo National Park is a large national park in Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa. It is located on the border between Masvingo Province and Mozambique in southeastern Zimbabwe. It was established in 1975 and covers an area of 5053 square kilometers. It is one of the most popular national parks in Zimbabwe.

Gonarejo National Park is Zimbabwe's second largest wildlife reserve, second only to Wanjia Park. Due to its vast area and large area of pristine grassland, it has become Zimbabwe's most popular place to watch wild animals. The biggest feature of this national park is that all wild animals can stroll freely in the park and get along harmoniously.

The wild animals living in the park include African wild dogs. In 2010, several sightseeing spots were specially opened in the park to watch African wild dogs. Tourists can take a special sightseeing bus to tour the entire park. The primitive beauty of the African prairie is presented in front of them. They can watch herds of elephants and fierce African wild dogs.

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Balance Stone Park On the outskirts of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, there is a strange park. It is neither famous for its precious flowers nor beautiful scenery, but it is famous around the world for its giant and strange stones. It is Balance Stone Park. There are many strange rocks in the park, of different sizes, smooth surfaces and various shapes. Some are shaped like mushrooms, some are shaped like a small hat, and some are similar to wooden boats... The ingenuity of heaven and earth makes people speechless.

These stones generally weigh several tons, and some even reach dozens of tons, but the support points below are very small. After thousands of years of wind and rain, they have always maintained their own balance and not collapsed. It is this magical creation that makes Balance Stone Park, which has a radius of several square kilometers, one of Zimbabwe's natural tourist attractions. The "boat-shaped boulder" pattern in Balance Stone Park has become one of Zimbabwe's national symbols. It is widely known by being printed on paper money and tourist brochures.

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is located at the junction of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, about 25 kilometers south of Mutare, and is 1911 meters higher. It is mainly composed of granite, together with Chimmaniani Mountains and Inyangani Mountains. It constitutes the eastern highland at the boundary between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It is often called the "Fog Mountain" because the mountains are often filled with fairyland fog in the morning and gradually disappears until noon.

Although most of the Byuma Mountains are in Zimbabwe, it also extends to northeastern Mozambique. Surrounded by the majestic green mountains are rural hotels, casinos and golf courses, botanical gardens, etc., which are also the local coffee plantation. For mountain climbing enthusiasts, this is also a great place to go. There is a slight mist in the lower half of the mountain. Various mountain plants grow on the mountain. Prochiya trees are distributed in areas at higher altitudes on the mountain. The side of the Byumu Mountain that stretches to Mozambique is a steep hiking route. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can overlook the plains of Manica Province and its surrounding areas.

Mount Inyangani Inyangani is the highest peak in Zimbabwe, with a height of 2592 meters. It is located in Inyanga National Park, about 275 kilometers southeast of Harare. The highest peak is located on a steep top with a radius of 40 meters. The rest of the peak is rolling hills and a plateau with an area of about 8 square kilometers. The edge of the plateau falls sharply to the east and west sides.

The plants on the mountain are mainly the wilderness covered with evergreen plants in the western part of the mountain top and the grassland in the eastern half. Annual rainfall reaches 2200 millimeters, which is very dry during the winter from May to August. Due to the tropical location and relatively low altitude of Mount Inyangani, snowfall is rare, with the last snowfall recorded in August 1935. People with average physical strength can reach the peak in just 1 to 3 hours.

Matobo Mountain, located about 24.9 miles south of Bulawayo, is a serrated mountain range covering an area of 790700 acres. It is formed by weathering along the regular scattered lines on the rock paintings. Mount Matobo is famous for its unusual scenery and diversity of flora and fauna. It is one of the areas with the richest prehistoric rock art in the world.

Much of Matobo Mountain is a steep ridge, with its lower slopes usually covered with dense forests and separated by valleys often with numerous rivers, springs, and ponds. Nutrients are widely drawn from lichens, figs, aloe vera and other flora to support short-growing species. The high-quality masonry craftsmanship is the most eye-catching, especially the wall in the northeast of the oval paddock. The wall is 9.1 high and has a bottom thickness of 4.9 meters. The top structure in a zigzag shape extends nearly 60 feet along the 244-meter-long circular wall.

Matobo Mountain has the richest rocky landscape. These huge rocks provide a large number of natural caves and become a gathering place for rock painting art. Rock paintings are very fragile art. They can easily be destroyed and difficult to restore. The good thing is that the relics of this character are relatively well preserved.

Sinoah Cave Sinoah Cave is a cave site of ancient humans in Zimbabwe. It is also an ancient cultural relic attraction that attracts tourists. It is located in the mountainous area 120 kilometers northwest of the capital Harare. It is located in a land of undulating hills and was discovered in 1887 AD. The site is surrounded by trees and flowers.

The scope of the site consists of an open cave and a dark cave, as well as a deep pool between the two caves. Mingdong is divided into 5 levels, with a diameter of about 4 meters. The cave body slopes downward at a 45-degree slope and is tens of meters long. The stone levels from the entrance to the middle were dug by modern kings, providing convenience for tourists to enter and exit the cave. In this section of the cave, there are two natural windows made up of stone holes on the roof of the cave. When sunlight can directly shine into the cave, the inside of the cave appears bright.

The stone steps from the middle to the bottom of the cave were dug by primitive people in those years. They went down the steps and became wider and wider. The bottom of the cave is clear water, and the bottom of the cave is very bright. There turned out to be a huge stone cave like a shaft leading directly to the ground. Strong sunlight shines on the bottom of the cave, and it is marked as the third open hole and the largest "skylight." There are many symbols similar to modern human characters remaining on the inner wall of the cave. Although many traces of murals of primitive people have been weathered and eroded by nature, those rough lines are still vaguely visible.

You can't see your fingers in the dark cave. Tourists enter the cave all rely on electric lights to illuminate it. It is said to be another cave site of primitive people at that time. Under the illumination of the lights, various shapes of stalactite pillars, stalagmites, stoneflowers, etc. in the cave are in a variety of shapes and shine, making people feel that this is a mysterious world. There are also many traces of primitive people left on the walls of the dark cave. The discovery of Sinoa Cave not only provides precious original data for studying the social activities and living customs of ancient humans in Africa, but also provides a rare natural attraction for Zimbabwe to develop modern tourism.

Mataruz Waterfall Mataruz Waterfall is a free-jumping two-level waterfall with a height of 762 meters. It is located in the Honde Valley in the eastern plateau of Zimbabwe. It is formed by the Mataruz River flowing through the edge of the eastern cliff of the Zimbabwe Plateau.

Mataruz Waterfall is the 17th waterfall in the world for its height. It is also the second highest waterfall in Africa and the highest waterfall in Zimbabwe. When the Mataruz River flows through the edge of the cliff, it forms a magnificent two-level waterfall. The water flies down from a height of 762 meters, making the scene spectacular. The Mataruz River flows long throughout the year, while the Mataruz Waterfall has its largest and most magnificent water volume from February to April; during the dry season in October, the flow of the waterfall will be greatly reduced.

Sabi and Cheore Nature Reserve Manapors National Park, Sabi and Cheore Nature Reserve are located in the northeastern region of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe and bordering Zambia. Manapors National Park was built in 1963 and covers an area of 2196 square kilometers. The Sabi and Cheore Nature Reserves were built in 1964 and cover an area of 3390 square kilometers and 1180 square kilometers respectively. They include a vast area starting from the approximately 30-kilometer-long Mupata Canyon and extending downstream along the Zambezi River.

The water in the Mupata Canyon has a high amount of sand content, resulting in many small islands and sandy beaches. Manapors National Park, Sabi and Cheore Nature Reserve are in the same grassland forest biomeographic area. The vast grassland is connected to other plant communities, and there is a small but very important mountain flora; The bottom of the valley is dotted with a sparse forest of dry deciduous shrubs called "Gisai"; on the small islands and beaches piled with sand in the Zambezi River, golden acacia trees and African Kihri sparse forest grow.

This area is rich and diverse in animal resources, among which the endangered movement mainly includes black rhinos. The Cheore Nature Reserve is home to Africa's largest black rhinoceros herd. There are more than 380 species of birds and more than 6500 African elephants living along rivers and in bushes, as well as the Nile crocodile that is facing extinction.

Manapol National Park, Sabi Natural Zoo and Cheore Natural Zoo, forms three wildlife reserves. They are located in the northeast of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe and bordering Zambia. They were built in 1963 and 1964 respectively, with an area of 2196 square kilometers, 3390 square kilometers and 1180 square kilometers respectively.

This area is very rich in natural wild animal resources, especially in this low-lying plain, where many mammals are concentrated during the dry and dry seasons, such as the endangered black rhinoceros, Nile crocodiles, etc. In addition, there are more than 6500 African elephants and bushes. More than 380 species of birds inhabit. This is a rare natural heritage of mankind. In 1982, it was included in the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

These three wildlife reserves are located in the same grassland forest biogeography area, starting from the 30-kilometer-long Mupata Canyon in the north and extending downward along the Zambezi River. The river above the Mupata Canyon is wide, and the impact of quicksand forms many small islands and sandy beaches in the center of the river. Both sides of the Zambezi River are full of huge cliffs. There are vast highlands on both sides of the Zambezi River. Various mountain plants grow on the highlands, and dry deciduous shrubs, sparse trees and sparse forests are everywhere, providing an ideal environment for wild animals to inhabit and reproduce.

Tourists visiting here will often encounter many amazing scenes: just more than 100 steps away in front of you, a low shrub forest is shaking, and then small trees are falling down one after another, revealing an elephant, fanning its nose, rolling up the leaves of the fallen tree, chewing slowly... The elephant was satisfied, sniffed, and slowly walked deeper into the forest.

A group of wild horses rushed towards you from afar at the same time, like a yellow wave rolling up on the grassland. In the blink of an eye, they suddenly stopped not far in front of you, formed a semi-circle, tilted their heads to look at you, and they ran away like another gust of wind, seeing that they were about to be lost in the depths of the grassland, but they ran back like a gust of wind and looked at you.

Matusadona National Park Matusadona National Park is a wildlife reserve located in northern Zimbabwe. The park's name comes from the local Matuzviadonha Mountain, which is a pristine wilderness composed of charming plains and rolling mountains.Matuzviadonha means falling manure, and was named because some people often see elephants dripping manure as they strive to climb the mountain.

Matusadona National Park has unique original natural scenery, covering an area of approximately 1370 square kilometers. It is located along Lake Kariba. Its western boundary is the Ume river, and its eastern boundary is the Munyati River. Two-thirds of the area is distributed in the southern part of Zambia's cliffs.

This is the last reserve where endangered black rhinos live. It is often considered to be the second largest wild lion reserve in Africa, second only to the Ngorongoro Reserve. In addition, elephants, zebras, antelopes, water buffaloes, crocodiles, seahorses and other wild reading materials are also distributed here, making it an ideal place for Safari. However, transportation here is not particularly convenient and can be passed in two ways-by boat from Lake Kariba or by car through Karoikamativi Road.

Chisarui National Park Chisarui National Park is located in northern Zimbabwe, covering an area of approximately 2000 square kilometers. It is one of the largest national parks in Zimbabwe. Due to its unique geographical location, it is isolated on the edge of the cliffs in Zambezi. Therefore, it is the least well-known national park in the country, with a wide variety of wild animals and beautiful original natural scenery.

The vegetation distribution in Chisarui National Park transitions from low vegetation to high woodland from north to south. The waterfalls on the cliffs pour down from a steep height of 600 to the trough of the Zambezi River, forming a magnificent scenery. The Mcheni and Lwizikululu rivers flow across the canyons on the cliffs.

The most conspicuous sign in the northeast of the park is Mount Tundazi. According to local legend, a huge snake lives on the mountain. The southern boundary of the park is the Busi River, which is covered with acacia trees on its banks. Chisarui National Park was gazetted as a game reserve in 1938, listed as a wildlife reserve in 1963, and officially qualified as a national park in 1975. It is headquartered in Manzituba.