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

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Avondale Flea Market

The Avondale flea market is open seven days a week unlike its main rival the market at Sam Levy...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Umfurudzi Park

Animal Species: Elephant, Eland, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, leopard, hippo, Nile crocodile, kudu,...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners, popularly known as makorokoza, risk their lives to make a decent living

SourcesThis article is a very abbreviated summary from the following publications which readers may...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

The Paper House (including the National Mining Museum)

Within the grounds of the National Mining Museum stands a relic of the boom gold mining days called...

Category:

Geological, Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Thetford Game Reserve

If there is only the time for half a day’s game drive, then Thetford Game Reserve, which...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Globe and Phoenix Mine Manager’s House

Diana Polisensky tells us that Mr R.J. Allwright was its first resident and began its extensive...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

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.