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

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ENACT’s Report on Corruption in Africa and Zimbabwe

BackgroundIn this report we look at the results of the ENACT report Africa Organised Crime Index...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Colin Harding – the man in charge of the execution of Chief Chingaira Makoni – his life and career in early Rhodesia

Edwin Colin Harding had a very distinguished career being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Witches and Witchcraft

By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Fort Usher No. 3

William Filmer (his mother’s maiden name) Usher was born on 16 September 1851 and baptised at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Inodzi Gums – the tallest trees in Zimbabwe

Lyn Mullin and his colleagues in the Forestry Commission, Richard Barrett and Lisle Orpen and many...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Chewore Fossil forest Site

Below a Geological table at the Museum of Human Sciences in Harare shows the various life forms...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.