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

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Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Southern Cave

The Southern cave is very easy to enter at ground level under a fence that has been erected to...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Gaika Mine Manager’s house

Que Que (now Kwekwe) was originally called Sebakwe after the nearby river, but as the name was...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Dan Judson and the Africa Transcontinental Telegraph Co

In the article on the Mazowe Patrol, under Mashonaland Central, I have noted that Dan Judson, the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Chivero Conservation Program operated by Four Faces for Zimparks

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Harare

This rotten Law does Zimbabwe no credit at all; Tendai Biti says, “Not even Apartheid Rhodesia passed such repugnant law”

How did this oppressive piece of legislation come about?At the same time as President Mnangagwa...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896) has now been vandalised

The Memorial is situated to the west of the Shangani River Bridge and it’s a mystery why it...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.