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

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Zvipadze Monument (formerly known as Harleigh Farm Ruin)

The San rock art paintings nearby are underneath an overhang that looks like a giant granite...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

The Mzilikazi Memorial

The Memorial is on the site of Mzilikazi's royal town of Mhlahlandleia after he left Inyati and...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

World's View, Matobo

Cecil Rhodes, Dr. Leander Starr Jameson and several other leading early white settlers, including...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Travelling by coach in 1890 by Major A.G. Leonard

Arthur Leonard commanded “E” Troop of the BSA Company Police which was stationed at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Tsindi Ruins (formerly called Lekkerwater Ruins)

Peter Garlake reminds us that that stone enclosures, such as we see at Tsindi Hill, served a...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Bunga Forest Botanical Reserve

The Bvumba, or Vumba as it was known (The word means “mist” in the local...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

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.