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

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World Wildlife Crime Report: Trafficking in protected species 2020 - Overview

Background This website has highlighted the plight of Chinese farmed wildlife in previous articles...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

A Success story…Zimbabwe relocates wildlife from Savé Valley Conservancy to Sapi Reserve within the Mana-Sapi-Chewore biosphere

The articles on which this is based came from the website of the Journal of African Elephants (...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

The story behind Derick Hoste who died of blackwater fever at Hartley Hills in 1893

Henry Francis “Skipper” Hoste was one of the older officers when at the age of 37 he...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Henry Hallam Dam (also called Harava Dam)

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Harare

The National Archives

The displays in the Upstairs Gallery cover a number of topics relevant to Zimbabwe’s history...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Notorious kingpin of a Malawi wildlife crime syndicate, Yunhua Lin is jailed for 14 years

There is a still a big demand in Asia for elephant ivory, rhino horns and pangolins for their...

Category:

Game Park

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.