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

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National Botanical Gardens

Over 900 trees and shrubs of Zimbabwe are carefully grouped in sections to show the...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural

Province:

Harare

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 4 of 5 - From Palapye, formerly Palachwe, to Massi-Kessi, now Manica)

30 March 1892. We reached Palachwe, present-day Palapye, the main town of the Mangwato (referred to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Savé Valley Conservancy

The Savé (pronounced Sah-vey) Valley Conservancy is located in the south-east lowveld, about 70...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Rhodes Nyanga Estate

The Park was once the private estate of the nineteenth century businessman and politician Cecil...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Manemba Cave

On the far left of the panel are lines of figures, some carrying heavy sticks on their shoulders, a...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

The 1896 siege of Belingwe, now Mberengwa as told by David Tyrie Laing

This account from Tyrie Laing’s book The Matabele Rebellion, 1896 with the Belingwe Field...

Category:

Historic

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.