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

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The June 1896 Mazoe Patrol skirmish with detailed accounts from those besieged and their Mashona attackers

GPS LocationsAlice Mine laager 17°30´44"S 30°57´33"EFort Mazoe 17...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Antonio Fernandes, probably the first European traveller to Zimbabwe in 1511 - 12

His life as we know it is summed up by Hugh Tracey in his Rhodesiana article: “Brought to...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Lake Kariba Recreational Park

There are 102 islands on the lake amongst which the following are well-known: Fothergill, Spurwing...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Runde (formerly Lundi) River strip road

In 1900 there were no properly constructed roads in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and when travelling on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Penhalonga

In 1888 Baron de Rezende, the Mozambique Company’s Director of Operations on Africa...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Orton’s Drift over the Sebakwe River

Below is a Rhodesia 1898 One Penny Duty stamp with an Orton’s Drift Post Office agency...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

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.