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

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Avondale and the story of Countess Billie

AvondaleEdward O’Connell Farrell (1850 – 1910)Edward O’Connell Farrell, a pioneer...

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Cultural

Province:

Harare

Esigodini (formerly Essexvale)

Esigodini is a village situated on the A6 National road to Beit Bridge and on the branch line from...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Penhalonga

In 1888 Baron de Rezende, the Mozambique Company’s Director of Operations on Africa...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Modern humans originated from Botswana, the ancestral homeland for all anatomically modern humans today, but left due to climate change

Three hundred kilometres south of Victoria Falls are the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana – a...

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Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Trek Memorial, Chimanimani (formerly Melsetter)

The original village of Chimanimani was founded by Thomas Moodie in 1892, but in 1895 it moved...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Cattle are our Bank

By T.K.M. TsodzoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

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Cultural

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.