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

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Murray MacDougall Drive

Murray McDougall travelled into Zimbabwe in 1906 exploring the Lowveld bush and hunting in the...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Masvingo

Dengeni Cave

The most unusual feature of the shelter is a red and white painted line that emerges from a natural...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Could this breakthrough ‘that changes the course of public health history’ help Zimbabwe defeat the menace of malaria?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the go-ahead for the launch of an effective malaria...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa in 1891-2 (Part 2 of 5 - Arrival in the Barotse Valley)

29 November 1891. “This morning, instead of starting, the carriers, led by two rascals, Bwete...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Zimbabwe’s Game Rangers on the front-line of the fight against the illegal wildlife trade and poaching

This article pays homage to the Game Rangers, both men and women from government agencies such as...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Traditional Ceremonies which persist

By Dominic M. MandazaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

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.