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The Best Attractions In Bulawayo Province

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Bulawayo is the second-largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with a population of 653,337 as of the 2012 census. It is in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland. The capital of Matabeleland North is now Lupane, as Bulawayo is a metropolitan province. Colloquially Bulawayo is known by other names: City of Kings, Skies, Bluez, or Ntuthu ziyathunqa — a Ndebele phrase for smoke arising. This name arose from the city's historically large industrial base and specifically draws from the large cooling towers of the coal powered electricity generating plant situated in the city...
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The Best Attractions In Bulawayo Province

  • 1. Matobo National Park Bulawayo
    The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. The hills were formed over 2 billion 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'. The Hills cover an area of about 3100 km² , of which 424 km² is National Park, the remainder being largely communal land and a small proportion of commercial farmland. The park extends along the Thuli, Mtshelele, Maleme and Mpopoma river valleys. Part of the national park is set aside as a 100 km²...
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  • 2. Natural History Museum Bulawayo
    The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe is located in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Leopold Takawira Avenue.Officially opened in 1964, the museum contains exhibits illustrating the history, mineral wealth and wildlife of Zimbabwe, including the second largest mounted elephant in the world.
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  • 3. Bulawayo Railway Museum Bulawayo
    Bulawayo is the second-largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with a population of 653,337 as of the 2012 census. It is in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland. The capital of Matabeleland North is now Lupane, as Bulawayo is a metropolitan province. Colloquially Bulawayo is known by other names: City of Kings, Skies, Bluez, or Ntuthu ziyathunqa — a Ndebele phrase for smoke arising. This name arose from the city's historically large industrial base and specifically draws from the large cooling towers of the coal powered electricity generating plant situated in the city centre that once used to billow steam and smoke over the city. The majority of Bulawayo's population belongs to the Ndebele ethnic and lang...
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  • 4. Khami Ruins Bulawayo
    Khami is a ruined city located 22 kilometres west of Bulawayo, in Zimbabwe. It was once the capital of the Kalanga Kingdom of Butwa of the Tolwa dynasty. It is now a national monument, and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
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  • 5. Nesbitt Castle Bulawayo
    Nesbitt Castle, formerly Holdengarde Castle, is a 20th-century neo-gothic castle near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It was built by business man Theodore Holdengarde in the 1920s.
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  • 6. Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage and Research Centre Bulawayo
    Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the rescue and care of orphaned, injured, abandoned, abused or confiscated wild animals in southern Africa. It is located in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
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