The ruins are very close to Bulawayo; an easy drive through the Western Suburbs and industrial sites. Well kept, the paths neatly cut with good signage, makes Khami a great place to spend an afternoon.

I’ve posted this pic first, because its the most impressive facade and the wall most people know at Khami.

I love the way the builders just included the rocks in the wall!

A slightly different view of the wall and right up above this section on the left, is this:

Thought to be built by the Portuguese, this cross was reconstructed in 1939, so it could have been any shape. The pic (below) shows the rock with the cross on it.

I’m always fascinated by the inhabitants of the Ruins of Zimbabwe! Wonder what they would tell us from stories passed down! I got sidetracked by this little guy!

He climbs down rocks – head first! Amazing little fella. I followed him around the rock until eventually he got sick of me and disappeared into a crevice.

This is a close up of a section of the steps – those holes must have held poles – but holding what up? Again, as at Great Zimbabwe, that mortar above the rocks is pretty hard wearing and its an aggregate, I’m told, almost as hard as cement. Perhaps large sections of the ruins were once plastered with this? Who knows?

This pic (above) shows those slots in the brick work …perhaps they held up a portico?

Like many of the other ruins in Zim, the walls are pretty thick with wide open doorways.

And they are often constructed in tiers, filled in with soil…

Would you believe when the settlers arrived, they built a dam – right over the top of this site????

As you can see, the wall has collapsed in several places, and unless the dam empties, it will be pretty hard to repair.

These two pics were taken from the “outlook point.”