Zimbabwe Field Guide | Information on Historic, Cultural and Wildlife sites in Zimbabwe

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Thetford Game Reserve Rock Art Site

Background to the rock art in ZimbabweZimbabwe has one of the highest concentrations of rock...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Mount Nyangani (formerly Mount Inyangani)

The landscape of Mount Nyangani is not as rugged and untamed as in Chimanimani; the...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) Recreational Park

The Recreational Park is 16,900 hectares in extent of which 9,300 hectares are occupied by Lake...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Kariba Houseboat charters– something for everyone

One of the most popular activities on Lake Kariba; for many visitors a boating holiday on a...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Mashona Rebellion / First Chimurenga 1896-7 graves at Old Marandellas (Ruzawi Cemetery)

Most of the material for this article comes from R. Hodder-Williams’ very useful articles in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners, popularly known as makorokoza, risk their lives to make a decent living

SourcesThis article is a very abbreviated summary from the following publications which readers may...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Welcome

One of the purposes of this website is to reassure visitors that the whole of Zimbabwe, including those remotest corners, are safe to travel.

The only way that today’s visitors and residents of Zimbabwe can appreciate the jigsaw puzzle of Zimbabwe’s history is by visiting and by walking through these silent sites and examining them and reading the excellent site descriptions and brochures that are available which I would encourage NMMZ to keep expanding. If this guide helps those visitors a little in understanding the background information then the effort in preparing it will have been repaid.

Each article gives a breakdown of sites by area and by category on what there is to see, and each location has detailed directions on how to get there and the reasons to make a visit. This is being added to all the time, but if you know of a site that you cannot find here, please let me know through the contact form.

Although I have included the details of game lodges and tented camps, that does not mean I endorse them as this is a non-commercial site. I simply want visitors and residents to know what is available and, in any case, these places are an essential part of the typical visitor's wildlife experience of Zimbabwe.