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

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Zimbabwe’s artisanal gold miners risk being poisoned with mercury (Hg)

Gold is integral to Zimbabwe’s economyArtisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)[i]...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Italian Chapel of St Francis of Assisi

The Italian Church reminds us of a very little known episode in the history of Zimbabwe when...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

The 1880 journey of Rev Father Augustus Henry Law S.J. and others to Mzila’s kraal in south-eastern Zimbabwe

AcknowledgementsThe Zambesi Mission itself is comprehensively covered in the book Journey to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Museum of Human Sciences

Originally opened in 1903 and called the Queen Victoria Museum, it mainly focuses on archaeology...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Harare

Lake Chivero Recreational Park

Lake Chivero (previously Lake Mcllwaine) Recreational Park is about 6,100 hectares in extent,...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Harare

National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum, Bulawayo

The National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum, Bulawayo opened on 4 November 1972 to coincide with the...

Category:

Cultural, 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.