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

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Bumbusi Ruin and Rock Engravings

I am very grateful to Gary Haynes for letting me quote from his article cited at the end of...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Historic, Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland North

Thuli Safari Area

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

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Tengenenge Sculpture Village

Tengenenge is situated against the Great Dyke, seemingly a typical African village in the North of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Francisco Barreto’s military expedition up the Zambesi river in 1569 to conquer the gold mines of Mwenemutapa (Monomotapa)

The background to the military expedition J. Boxer writes that there was no doubt that in seeking...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

This interview with Fenella Redrup was included in the souvenir brochure Occupation of Matabeleland...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

St Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mutirikwi, the smallest chapel in Zimbabwe

In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...

Category:

Building

Province:

Masvingo

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.