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Regions / Cities / Other destinations / Culture and History / Talk / Travel to Matabeleland, visa requirements / Get around / Matabeleland attractions and sightseeing / Itineraries / City tours / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Matabeleland nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Stay safe / Get out
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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.
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Regions
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Cities
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Other destinations
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Culture and History
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.
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Talk
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Travel to Matabeleland, visa requirements
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Get around
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Matabeleland attractions and sightseeing
- See the rock formation at Balla Balla.
- Visit Chipingali Wildlife Orphanage.
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Itineraries
The largest town in Matabeleland is Bulawayo, reknowned 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 minature versions of the stone ruins found at Great Zimbabwe.
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City tours
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Good restaurants and cheap meals
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".
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Matabeleland nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs.
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