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

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The Zeederberg Coach Company and the first passenger services into the country

Doel Zeederberg used passenger coaches built by the Abbot Downing Company based in Concord, the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Runde (formerly Lundi) River strip road

In 1900 there were no properly constructed roads in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and when travelling on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

National Botanical Gardens

Over 900 trees and shrubs of Zimbabwe are carefully grouped in sections to show the...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Charles Burrell Steam Traction Engine / Road Locomotive

This eight horsepower single cylinder Engine No. 2554 was built by Charles Burrell and Sons of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Karl Mauch, explorer and geologist and the man who claimed to be the first European to visit Great Zimbabwe

SummaryKarl Gottlieb Mauch (1837-75) was well-known in Southern Africa as the first European to...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Contemporary criticism of the British South Africa Company (BSAC) in 1889 – 90 from Henry Labouchère the editor of the journal Truth

IntroductionThis article is largely based on Eleanor Mabin’s thesis for an MA at Simon Fraser...

Category:

Historic

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.