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

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Chirinda Forest and the Big Tree

Local communities call this patch of forest Tshirinda or 'Refuge', and within its embrace...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Manyanga (formerly Ntaba zika Mambo) Monument ruins

The dry-stone buildings of Manyanga Monument ruins have been little described in the literature;...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Matabeleland North

A letter written by Frederick Courteney Selous to his mother on 25 December 1878 from Inyati Mission

What set Selous apart from the other sporting pioneers of Zambesia in the 187-80’s were his...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Loyal Women’s Guild and the Pioneer Memorial Crosses

In the five years of writing articles for my website, I have come across a few of the remaining...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Chamavara Cave

Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Rhodes first journey into Mashonaland in 1891 through Penhalonga

Rhodes travelled through Penhalonga on his second trip to what would become Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.