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

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Great Zimbabwe, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

Great Zimbabwe is undoubtedly sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most imposing early dry-stone...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe’s illicit Gold Market hinders the country’s development

BackgroundAlmost all the information below is sourced from the Global Initiative against...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

An Avenue of Kapok Trees outside Shamva

Just outside Shamva, on Rutherdale Estate, which borders Maxton Estate, on the east side of the A13...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

HistoryChief Mbari lived on the site of Harare kopje before the occupation in 1890, his brother...

Category:

Cultural, Historic, Building

Province:

Harare

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate appealed to Lobengula, King of the amaNdebele for a mineral...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.