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

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Thetford Game Reserve Rock Art Site

Background to the rock art in ZimbabweZimbabwe has one of the highest concentrations of rock...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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

Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Eton and Cambridge (1859 – 1881)Hubert Hervey was born on 19 May 1859 at Eaton Place, London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Old Jesuit Mission

In 1879 the Jesuits made arrangements to establish missions to the north of the Limpopo River and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

Some History on Chief Sileya (Shona: Chireya) and the Vashangwe community in the Sebungwe district

This article is composed from a number of articles in NADA (The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869 / 70 – background and travel by ox-wagon to Tati

IntroductionMuch of the biographic information below is from the excellent book Thomas Baines of...

Category:

Historic

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.