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

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National Heroes Acre

The grandiose obelisk of National heroes Acre or simply Heroes' Acre, overlooking the town, was...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Harare

Lalapanzi

Lalapanzi is a small village in the Midland province in Zimbabwe. It straddles...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Midlands

Penhalonga Church

Penhalonga Church is aligned east – west, with the sanctuary in the east and the Church porch...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Chief Chinengundu Mashayamombe’s stronghold, Fort Martin and Cemetery

Note: only Fort Martin and the cemetery have been visited at this time, the other sites will be...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele Rebellion (Umvukela) as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7 and the shooting of the Mlimo

Terence Ranger Obituary (29 Nov 1929 – 3 Jan 2015)In The Guardian Professor Terence ‘...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The Jameson Raid

IntroductionThe Jameson Raid caused enormous interest and controversy at the time and arguably was...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.