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

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Fort Tuli

The British South Africa (BSA) Company was granted its Royal Charter on 29th October 1889 and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Bulawayo rejects proposal for abattoir to export donkey-skins to China

IntroductionProposed plans for a donkey abattoir in Bulawayo have been turned down to the relief of...

Category:

Other

Province:

Bulawayo

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa in 1891-2 (Part 1 of 5 - Benguela, Angola to the Barotse Valley)

IntroductionJames (Jas) Johnston funded the expedition himself, he believed this was the only way...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

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 2)

Meikles HotelResearch by Cormac Lloyd in the 1990’s revealed that the Meikles Hotel dated...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second largest town after the capital Harare; it is twinned with...

Category:

Cultural, Historic, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

Mzilikazi's Grave

For a summarised account of Mzilikazi’s life see the article on the Mzilikazi Memorial under...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.