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

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Thuli Safari Area

The Thuli Safari area is a protected area in south-western Zimbabwe. It comprises four reserves...

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Scenic, Game Park, Historic

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Matabeleland South

The First Pioneers of Matabeleland; notes on the early Missionaries by Sir Robert Tredgold

This article was written by Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold[1] and was published within the Occupation...

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Cultural

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Matabeleland North

The victorious march of the Salisbury and Victoria Columns into Matabeleland

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

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Historic

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Bulawayo

An analysis of Roora

By Jaison AndifasiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

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Cultural

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Mashonaland East

Chief Chinengundu Mashayamombe’s stronghold, Fort Martin and Cemetery

Note: only Fort Martin and the cemetery have been visited at this time, the other sites will be...

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Historic

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Mashonaland West

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...

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Historic

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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.