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

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South Africa makes the correct decision on the future of wildlife including lion breeding, rhino horn and the elephant ivory trade

South Africa makes the correct decision on the future of wildlife including lion breeding, rhino...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Luanze Earthworks and Church

Luanze was the site of an important trading fair, called a feira, which was established in the 1580...

Category:

Ruins, Historic, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

The old Transport Road

Stanley Portal Hyatt came to Rhodesia on the Great northern Road when railhead was at Palapye...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

An explanation for the Y-shaped rock art motifs found on Nottingham Estate in the Limpopo-Shashi Valley

Introduction This article relies heavily on two articles by Geoffrey Blundell[1] and Edward B....

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Anglo Boer War graves at Paradise Plot Cemetery, Marondera

Most soldiers contracted fever in the unhealthy swamps of PEA and received medical attention at the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Central Cave

The Central cave to the west has a long line of animals painted across it with over 30 images...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.