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

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Hillside Dams

In the 1880’s the area was known as Matsheumhlope, or White Stones, the site of one of King...

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Scenic, Cultural

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Bulawayo

Bunga Forest Botanical Reserve

The Bvumba, or Vumba as it was known (The word means “mist” in the local...

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Scenic

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Manicaland

Rushwaya gold-smuggling case exposes a microcosm of the corruption that exists in Zimbabwe today

The irony of the arrest of Ms Henrietta RushwayaIn June this year the then President of the...

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Other

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Midlands

The Naletale Monument (or Nharatare “straight-line “or Nhandare “stadium”)

Section of entrance walling at...

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Ruins

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Midlands

The Great Zimbabwe Hill Complex in photographs - 2025

The Hill Complex from the valleyThe Great Zimbabwe site is dominated in the north by a...

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Cultural

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Masvingo

Types of Witchdoctors (N’angas)

By Emmanuel Asaph Tony NapataThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

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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.