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

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Italian Chapel of St Francis of Assisi

The Italian Church reminds us of a very little known episode in the history of Zimbabwe when...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Pit Structures

The number of pit structures that have been found is estimated to number into many hundreds. They...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Nswatugi Cave

The name Nswatugi means “the place of jumping” as it is believed that Mwari / Mwali (...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Hurungwe and Charara Safari Areas

This hunting area is situated in the Kariba eastern basin and extends from the Zambezi River at...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

The previous year the pioneer column on 11 July 1890 had crossed the Shashi River at the beginning...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The Market Hall (1893 – 94)

This is one of the very oldest buildings still standing. Although the building looks...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

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.