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

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Lake Kariba Recreational Park

There are 102 islands on the lake amongst which the following are well-known: Fothergill, Spurwing...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and his first two hunting trips into Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 and 1867

For background on the life of Thomas Leask visit the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Battle of Bembesi (called Egodade by the amaNdebele) on the 1 November 1893

Following the Battle of Shangani River (called Bonko by the amaNdebele) on 25th October, the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The part played by religion in the Mashona Rebellion (First Chimurenga) in 1896-7 as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7

Both this article and the article The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

The death of Cecil John Rhodes at his Muizenberg cottage in 1902

Rhodes in 1901From March to May in 1901 Rhodes was at Kimberley overseeing De Beers business and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Leopard Rock Hotel

Situated thirty kilometres from Mutare by tar road along a spectacular road through the Bvumba...

Category:

Other

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.