From the bush to the bustle, you’ll arrive at Chidobe Business Centre, a modest but lively local hub. This is where the village meets the marketplace — barbershops, bottle stores, grinding mills, schoolchildren in uniform, and vendors selling everything from airtime to tomatoes. It’s authentic, it’s unapologetic, and it’s where community life unfolds in real time.

Welcome to Chidobe Village — a vibrant rural hub that serves as the nerve centre for surrounding villages. Here you’ll see the local economy in motion: tuckshops, grinding mills, weekend soccer games, and the laid-back pulse of village hustle. From the centre, we travel deeper into the community to a carefully chosen homestead, where your real learning begins. This is no staged tour — it’s an open invitation to witness, ask, and understand. A guided walk through the homestead with insights into family structure, architecture, and daily routines Cultural schooling on rites of passage, beliefs, and traditional roles Food preparation demonstrations (and tastings if you’re lucky) A chance to try your hand at simple, everyday tasks — from pounding grain to fetching water Open conversations with locals who live the life, not just talk about it This is not a show. It’s a respectful, real encounter with rural Zimbabwe — the kind of experience that sticks, not just snaps.