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

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Shona Religion

By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Strategies for minimising human – elephant conflict in Zimbabwe

Because of ever increasing human growth and encroachment into wildlife habitat, degraded foraging,...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

The pub was a neat and tidy timber bar of English style with posts reaching up to support shelving...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Painted Wolf; How did one of Zimbabwe’s most endangered wildlife species acquire so many names?

They have so many names: African hunting dog, African wild dog, Cape hunting dog, hyena dog, ornate...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

IntroductionThis article does not attempt to describe in any detail all the feiras that were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

When is the sickening trade in Lions going to be banned?

IntroductionMost of the information for this article comes from four articles in the Daily Maverick...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

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.