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

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Diana’s Pool and Embizeni Chalets

Situated within the Matobo Communal lands, the word ‘Embizeni’ (Place of the Pots) is...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

By 1918, British aircraft were capable of carrying a fair load in addition to their crew and the...

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Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

A Success story…Zimbabwe relocates wildlife from Savé Valley Conservancy to Sapi Reserve within the Mana-Sapi-Chewore biosphere

The articles on which this is based came from the website of the Journal of African Elephants (...

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Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

George ‘Joros’ Westbeech’s influence in the lower Zambesi Valley and his 1885-1888 diaries

George Westbeech did keep a diary but sadly most of it has been lost except for those parts...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Cattle and Social Status

By D.H. MakamureThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

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Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Wildlife hero from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s Amos Gwema won the 2020 Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award sponsored by the Nick Maughan...

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Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.