The gentle rolling hill country to the south of Chimanimani Mountains, lower in altitude with high rainfall. It is a highly productive agricultural area, where coffee, tea and conifer plantations clothe the hillsides and valleys.

Chipinge village sets off the beautiful scenery - it has a rustic pub and Tudor-style library. The golf course is adjacent to it. Here is an ideal get-away for those wishing to leave the busy-ness of modern living behind and enjoy the sleepy rhythm of rural life.

Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve - a primaeval tropical rainforest. Here grows a giant Khaya Nyasica (Red Mahogany) tree said to be 1000 years old accompanied by other giants of numerous species vying with tangled lianas for sunlight as high as 60m above the ground. The forest is home to a host of ferns, orchids, unique species of trees, plants and flowers. These in turn provide a habitat for animals, birds and butterflies.

Mount Selinda Mission station is surrounded by Forest. Nearby there is an irrigation scheme started by an early missionary where communal farmers grow tropical fruit and grains successfully.

Birchenough Bridge in the lowveld straddles the mammoth Savé River, west of mountain ranges but still in Manicaland. In full flood the Save rises as much as 7m from its sandy river bed. The Bridge needed to be anchored either side into solid soil and was designed with a single-arch span to avoid the shifting sands below. It was named after Sir Henry Birchenough, President of the British South Africa Company.