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

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Fort Rixon Rebellion Memorial (Matabele Uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

The memorial names the following civilians on the north face:To the memory of James Cunningham, his...

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Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

To what extent did slavery exist in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe?

I have been told that slavery did not exist in the region of Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe;...

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Cultural

Province:

Harare

Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

IntroductionThompson’s parents[1] came to South Africa in 1850, Francis Robert ‘...

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Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

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Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Birchenough Bridge

Birchenough Bridge spanning the Save River was a gift of the Beit Trust has and was given its name...

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Building

Province:

Manicaland

Minerals found in Zimbabwe and verified deposits

Zimbabwe is blessed with rich mineral resource with every one of its districts having one or more...

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Geological

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.