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

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Tengenenge Sculpture Village

Tengenenge is situated against the Great Dyke, seemingly a typical African village in the North of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Big game hunters in present-day Zimbabwe until 1880

E.E. Burke in the Foreword to Bethell’s Notes on South African Hunting says the story...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners produce record output, but still face challenges

The Victoria Gold belt situated south of Mt Cotopaxi and on...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Khame (previously Khami) Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

BackgroundGreat Zimbabwe between 1300 to 1500AD was the largest settlement in sub-Saharan Africa,...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

Vere Stent’s recollections of Raaff’s Rangers and the Southern Column in 1893

Who was Vere Stent?Vere Palgrave Stent (1872-1941) was a journalist and war correspondent...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

How the Ox-Wagon and transport-rider opened up this country

So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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.