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

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Fort Charter

IntroductionThis paper is based on a survey carried out by J.K.G. Borcherds, B.Arch., RIBA in...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) – a high price was paid in young lives

Much of the information below was originally included in the article The Rhodesia Air Training...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Birchenough Bridge

Birchenough Bridge spanning the Save River was a gift of the Beit Trust has and was given its name...

Category:

Building

Province:

Manicaland

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

EE Burke was the first to try and trace the gravesite of Willie Hartley, who he says died to the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Maramuca, a Portuguese Feira dating from 1660 - 1680

There a number of direct and indirect nineteenth century references to the feira at Maramuca. In...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

St Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mutirikwi, the smallest chapel in Zimbabwe

In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...

Category:

Building

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.