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

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Chirundu

Chirundu is the border town between Zimbabwe and Zambia with a new one-stop border control ...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Rhodes Summer-house

The Summer House is where Cecil Rhodes’ coffin rested on the night before the final trek to...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Inanke Cave

This well-lit cave is situated high up on the steep granite slopes of Inanke Mountain with broad...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over land reform

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

This article is intended to provide an overview of the route and the men who made the journey in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 4 of 5 - From Palapye, formerly Palachwe, to Massi-Kessi, now Manica)

30 March 1892. We reached Palachwe, present-day Palapye, the main town of the Mangwato (referred to...

Category:

Cultural

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.