Cultural wealth and paradisiacal nature

Zimbabwe is home to five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, three in the World Cultural Heritage category and two World Natural Heritage Sites.
The World Heritage Sites include the extensive Stone Age art with cave paintings in the Matopo Mountains. The second is the stone evidence of "Great Zimbabwe", a fortified town that flourished between the 11th and 15th centuries. The complex in the province of Masvingo, whose name means "large stone houses", is the largest "pre-colonial" stone construction south of the Sahara. The third World Heritage Site is located in the south-west: the ruins of Khami from the 15th to 17th centuries.
In addition to the fantastic Mana Pools National Park, which is home to lions, elephants, buffalo and leopards, the Victoria Falls, named after the former British Queen Victoria, are also a World Heritage Site. Here, the Zambezi River thunders 108 metres into the depths. This creates a spray that rises up to 300 metres and gives the falls its name in the local language: thundering smoke.