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

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The Adendorff trek and the planned invasion of Banyailand

BackgroundThe Adendorff or Banyailand trek was made up of Afrikaners who ...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

What is the Chinese Motivation in Zimbabwe?

Introduction – why is Eddie Cross’s article so relevant?The article below by Eddie...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Harare

Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

The Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Pioneer Cemetery reads: ...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

The Southern Column’s skirmish at the Singuesi river on 2 November 1893 revisited

Why has so little been written about the Southern Column’s campaign?Many readers may not be...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Silozwane Cave - rock art paintings

Why Visit?This great cave was explored in 1908 by F.P. Mennell and E.C. Chubb who took three days...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Zambezi River

The Zambezi is the fourth longest river in Africa after the Nile, the Congo and the Niger and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.