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

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Gweru Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

List of Victims named on the Gweru MemorialNamesDate of DeathDetailsMilitary ...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Midlands

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second largest town after the capital Harare; it is twinned with...

Category:

Cultural, Historic, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

A veteran’s account from the Battle of Bembesi in 1893 and when Joe Smith knocked down Cecil Rhodes and saved his life in 1896

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Chamavara Cave

Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Canned Lion hunting and the horrible trade to the Far East in wild animal parts

The Daily Telegraph on 15 June 2020 carried an editorial promoting Michael Ashcroft’s newly...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The victorious march of the Salisbury and Victoria Columns into Matabeleland

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

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.