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

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Ngomakurira

The stiff hike up the adjoining mountain, which is much more arduous than Domboshawa, is well...

Category:

Scenic, Geological, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

The inauspicious start to Herbert Taylor’s thirty-three year career as Chief Native Commissioner

SourceThe bulk of the information in this article is summarised from Roger Howman’s article...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 3)

Strickland’s Store; subsequently the Police Station and then Charter Post Office AgencyJohn...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

The Hunter’s Road - followed on maps

To those unfamiliar with the term ‘the Hunter’s Road’ a brief explanation for an...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.