'''Matabeleland''' is a region in the southwest and west of Zimbabwe. It is inhabited by the Ndebele people, who settled here in the mid 1800s.
Regions
Cities
Bulawayo
Other destinations
Understand
Southern Matabeleland is for the greater portion of the year hot and dusty. Tropical rainstorms arrive at 4:20pm, drop their load of huge, warm drops, and are gone by 5pm - you could set your watch by it.
Baobab trees are common, as are mopani. The grasslands glow in the deep afternoon sun.
Talk
Get in
Get around
See
See the rock formation at Balla Balla.
Visit Chipingali Wildlife Orphanage.
Itineraries
The largest town in Matabeleland is Bulawayo, renowned for its wide streets built to allow a wagon with a 10-oxen team to do a U-turn. Bulawayo has an airport, which makes it an ideal starting point. From Bulawayo one can travel south to Matobo for a day's slow drive thru the exotic landscapes, or westward to Khami Ruins, to see miniature versions of the stone ruins found at Great Zimbabwe.
Do
Go to Matobo!
Eat
A local delicacy is the mopani worm - these caterpillars are dried in the sun, and sold as a snack food. The staple food is mealie meal, made into a stiff porridge known as "sadza".
Drink
Stay safe
Get out