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

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Zinjanja Monument (formerly Regina Ruins)

Dr. Hans Sauer in Ex Africa published by Geoffrey Bles in 1937 and reprinted by Books of Rhodesia...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Rhodes’ Three Peace Indabas

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Cyrene Mission

In 1939 Canon Edward Paterson, an Anglican priest born in Scotland but raised in Johannesburg, was...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Sandawana emeralds are amongst the most beautiful and sought after in the world

This article is based upon a number of articles listed in the reference section but most of the...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Midlands

Administration and Government 1889 – 1953

BackgroundThis article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The Great Dance or Inxwala Festival

Background to the Great DanceThe Inxwala, or Great Ceremony, usually called the Great Dance, in the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

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.