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

Explore by Province

Featured Sites

Zimbabwe in antique maps of South Eastern Africa

In Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia, a general atlas of the world is the first map of Africa....

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) and the Dam Wall

The dam was constructed in 1960, the same year the Recreational Park was established. The primary...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Masvingo

Santa Barbara Chapel, Kariba

The little Chapel of Santa Barbara is situated at the top of the hill known as Kariba Heights and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Percy Clark in his book Autobiography of an Old Drifter tells how Charles Fox, nephew of Sir...

Category:

Scenic, Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland North

Mambo Rebellion Memorial – with three oral history accounts collected by Foster Windram in 1936 and 1938 concerning the killings at West’s store

For the associated articles on the battle of Ntaba zika Mambo and the Manyanga Monument ruins and...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Nyangombe Natural Swimming Pool / Falls

The rocks are slippery and care should be exercised when walking on them.Close to the Nyangombe...

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.