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

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Great Zimbabwe, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

Great Zimbabwe is undoubtedly sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most imposing early dry-stone...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

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

Cattle are our Bank

By T.K.M. TsodzoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Penhalonga Church

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

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Northern Cave

The Northern Cave at Chikupo has a short steep and slippery slope on the western...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450 - c.1480

The first limitation in writing any article on the Mutapa state is the absence of original and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.