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

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Nyanga National Park

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

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Manicaland

Bats are not to blame for COVID-19; Chinese wildlife farms are and what the next pandemic might look like

The precise origin of the COVID-19 virus that has wreaked such health problems and high death rates...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

IntroductionThompson’s parents[1] came to South Africa in 1850, Francis Robert ‘...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

This article is intended to provide an overview of the route and the men who made the journey in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Nyangwe Fort

The main features are the thick, high walls of large, close fitting, blocks of stone forming...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

La Rochelle Country House and Spa, a National Trust of Zimbabwe property

During World War I Stephen Courtauld was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

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.