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

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John Bradburne – the former warden at Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre, a candidate for Sainthood?

Born on 14 June 1921 in Cumbria, England, his father was an Anglican clergyman. When World War...

Category:

Cultural, Other

Province:

Mashonaland East

The Zambezi Society

The Zambezi Society( www.zamsoc.org) conserving the wildlife and wilderness values of the...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Traveller’s Tree

Lyn Mullin in his Historic Trees of Zimbabwe describes this large hollow baobab tree, Adansonia...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

Nyanga National Park

The National Park is the oldest in Zimbabwe, having started as Rhodes Inyanga Estate, а...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Manicaland

Early traveller’s impressions of Gubulawayo

A map of the approximate positions of the amaNdebele royal kraals of Kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Some important Shona customs and ceremonies

By Peter SangoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.