Crocodile Rock To the left of the of the two large crocodiles are a line of ten hunters drawn in great detail wearing a mixture of headdresses, most have shoulder bags and some wear capes. They are painted in a variety of ochre shades; one is painted black and they are drawn in profile, whilst the large figure on the crocodile is drawn from the front. The vivid paint colours are a reminder of their original condition ..read more

The term petroglyph is generally used to denote San rock engravings which have been pecked, incised scratched, ground or carved into the rock and they differ from San paintings which are painted onto the vertical rock surfaces of shelters. Most of Zimbabwe’s petroglyphs consist of animal and human footprints, with just the one known example of a naturalistic engraving of an animal. Eight are located in a cluster in Hwange National Park near the Bumboosie Monument with most of them being engravings of Zebra footprints, with another four within the boundaries of Hwange National Park ..read more

    The Northern Cave at Chikupo has a short steep and slippery slope on the western end to negotiate, but once accomplished there are wonderful views over the adjoining kopjes and communal lands to the north and west.   ..read more

The Central cave to the west has a long line of animals painted across it with over 30 images including kudu, buffalo, roan, sable and warthogs.  Their variety and abundance, rather than their quality, is unusual. This small segment of the line shows some kudu does with young ..read more

The Southern cave is very easy to enter at ground level under a fence that has been erected to keep out stray cattle. There is a mass of paint remains on the western side; the original paintings were probably ruined by cattle being penned in the cave and rubbing up against them at some time in the past ..read more

The Western cave also has a mass of paintings, but most are now rather faded and indistinct. The floor of the cave is covered in lumps of dhaka and rocks that appear to have been transported into the cave, some look as they have been used as grinding stones or querns ..read more

The shelter is easily accessible being about 450 metres from the tarred road down a track which leads north west from the Chavadzimu stores. About eighty metres east of the main cave, in dense thicket, are a group of two hippo cows and calves. Beside them, drawn extremely naturalistically, are three rhino cows with calves.  ..read more

Pink Elephants comprises six faded pink elephants high above an overhanging shelter at the summit of the steep kopje. For Diana’s Vow continue 1.6 KM and turn right, continue 1.1 KM and turn right again, another 2.4 KM gets to the Constance Road going to the left, continue another 0.2 KM for Diana’s Vow; turn left and drive another 0.3 KM to reach the car park.     Acknowledgements ..read more

  I am very grateful to Gary Haynes for letting me quote from his article cited at the end of the article and use his illustrations. Bumbusi dry-stone walling National Monument ..read more

On the southernmost boulder are four fish and a kudu cow in yellow, whose lower legs were once probably painted white, but have faded. There are a mass of faded hunters. Further along a large well-drawn buffalo, > one metre long, has two yellow ochre kudu cows superimposed on the torso. They are followed to the right by a confused mass of human and animal figures with kudu, sable, a small dark ovoid, a bird, a hunter, and another multi-coloured ovoid. Four faded ochre animals are superimposed on an ovoid ..read more