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

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Gweru (formerly called Gwelo)

In pre-colonial times Gweru may have been one of the outposts of the Rozvi Empire and was almost...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

The Cecil Kop Nature Reserve

Cecil Kop Nature Reserve is located just two kilometres from the city centre and is managed and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Manicaland

Sentinel Ranch Dinosaur Fossils

According to Wikipedia Massospondylus( (mas-oh-spon-di-las); from Greek massōn, "longer...

Category:

Geological, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Bulawayo Railway Museum

The Museum office was the station building for Shamva from 1931 until moved and re-erected in...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Maramuca, a Portuguese Feira dating from 1660 - 1680

There a number of direct and indirect nineteenth century references to the feira at Maramuca. In...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

Category:

Historic

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.