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

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The importance of the Ancestors and the installation of a Chief

By Mlambo Manyezu MathiasThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Crooks Corner

When Stephanus Barnard, better known by his Shangaan nickname of Bvekenya "the one who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Chamavara Cave

Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Bvumba Mountains

A few kilometres outside Mutare, the road to the Bvumba starts its scenic climb, winding...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

The Pink Map; how credible were Portuguese claims to Mashonaland and Manicaland before 1890?

Reality is described as the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Chirundu

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

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.