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

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The Matabele Campaign of 1893 - the march on Bulawayo

Dr Jameson may have decided on 18 July 1893 that the only solution was a military one, [i...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town

IntroductionThe Rhodes Memorial is a tribute to the English-born politician and mining magnate...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Arcturus Mine murders and payroll robbery in 1978

It was 30th April 1978 and Mr. Fadness, the Arcturus mine manager and Mr. Baker, the mine secretary...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland East

Old Fort Hartley and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Below is a general map at 1:250,000 scale showing the principal places of interest referred to in...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Quentin Barnett’s childhood memories of life at Widgeon Ranch, Felixburg, Rhodesia 1956-1971

My Grandfather, Thomas Wilkie Barnett, died on Alanberry Farm (neighbouring Widgeon Ranch) in March...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

How the Ox-Wagon and transport-rider opened up this country

So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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.