Known for it's lovely wide streets and architecture, there are many places of historic interest to visit. 30kms south of Bulawayo are the spectacular Matobo Hills. Sunny and spacious Bulawayo is a pleasure to visit at any season because of its excellent highveld climate. Broad avenues lined with an attractive mix of architecture, gracious parks and gardens in perpetual flower, give it special appeal. Once the seat of the Ndebele kings, the city is now a major industrial centre with museums, art galleries, theatres and a new university in the making.
Steam trains are alive and well in Bulawayo, hub of the national rail network.
They operate throughout the country, alongside modem locomotives, and thunder down to Victoria Falls on romantic rail safaris. The Railway Museum has an outstanding collection of historic locomotives and rolling stock. West of the city, an easy half-hour drive, lie the ruins of Khame stronghold of the Torwa state that flourished in the sixteenth century. Matobo means 'bald heads' in Ndebele. Cecil Rhodes and other leaders from the colonial period chose to be buried on top of one huge whaleback rock.