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

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Early Mail Services

The earliest mail service was by runner through Bechuanaland (modern-day Botswana) between Mafeking...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Gallery Delta

Gallery Delta’s formative years were at Strachan’s building in Manica Road from 1975,...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Horse riding in the Mavuradonha with Varden Safaris

The horse riding safaris take place about 180 kilometres north of Harare in a very remote area of...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Richard Leakey, fossil hunter and champion of elephants

World-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, whose...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Madzimudzangara Cave

The paintings are so thickly painted it is quite difficult to disentangle them. Unfortunately...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1870 after Lobengula granted a verbal mineral concession and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 2

IntroductionPart 2 covers the journey Baines made to the northern goldfields for the second time in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.