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

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Rhodes Nyanga Estate

The Park was once the private estate of the nineteenth century businessman and politician Cecil...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Update on Matusadonha National Park

Great news for Zimbabweans as conservation efforts aim to restore the wildlife at this National...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Harare’s Historic buildings – The Kopje Area

The Queen’s Hotel was opened on 31 December 1899 on the eve of the twentieth century and...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and his first two hunting trips into Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 and 1867

For background on the life of Thomas Leask visit the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The story of a nurse and authoress travelling on the Selous Road through Mashonaland in 1896 during the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga

BackgroundThe title of the book relates to two of the most dramatic events in Southern Africa. The...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Gore was a greedy man

By Darwin ChakabvaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

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.