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

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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

Fort Haynes and the fight at Chief Chingaira Makoni’s Kraal

In June 1896 the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga broke out.Four companies of mounted infantry...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Avondale and the story of Countess Billie

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

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Eton and Cambridge (1859 – 1881)Hubert Hervey was born on 19 May 1859 at Eaton Place, London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Letters from the Siege of Ladysmith by Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe

Background The article Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Chinese mining companies are causing turmoil in the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area

Where is the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area?Ask most Zimbabweans if they ever heard of the Mavuradonha...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.