Other Activities

Other Activities In & Around Bulawayo

Matobo Hills

The Matobo or Matopos Hills are an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. The Hills were formed over 2000 million years ago with granite being forced to the surface, this has eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken kopjes, strewn with boulders and interspersed with thickets of vegetation. Mzilikazi, founder of the Ndebele nation, gave the area its name, meaning 'Bald Heads'.

Khami Ruins

Khame (also written as Kame or Kami) was the capital of the Torwa State that emerged as a strong power in southwestern Zimbabwe after the decline of Great Zimbabwe in the 15th Century. In the late 17th Century the site was burned and levelled by the Rozwi, who then took it over. In the 1830s Nguni speaking Ndebele raiders displaced them from Khame and many of the other sites they had established.

Victoria Falls

The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (the Smoke that Thunders) is a waterfall situated between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The falls are, by some measures, the largest waterfall in the world, as well as being among the most unusual in form, and having arguably the most diverse and easily seen wildlife of any major waterfall site.

Hwange National Park

Hwange named after the chieftain of Zwange now called Chief Hwange.(known as Wankie until 1982) is a town in western Zimbabwe, in the province of Matabeleland North. According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 42,581. It is a centre for the coal mining industry with Hwange Colliery being the largest coal mine in Zimbabwe (with reserves for over 1000 years). Coal was discovered here in 1897. A coal power plant was built here in the late 1990s.

Matobo Hills - kopjes and wooded valleys

Khami Ruins - Historical Monuments

Victoria Falls - Hwange National Park