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

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Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) Recreational Park

The Recreational Park is 16,900 hectares in extent of which 9,300 hectares are occupied by Lake...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

David Tyrie Laing and the near-disaster Matobo Hills engagement in the 1896 Matabele Uprising or Umvukela

The accounts below are based primarily on David Tyrie Laing's book The Matabele Rebellion...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

By Zeederberg Coach to Bulawayo in 1895

Mrs RA Fletcher of Umvutcha Farm[1] near Bulawayo with two children, one aged 2 years and the other...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Diana’s Pool and Embizeni Chalets

Situated within the Matobo Communal lands, the word ‘Embizeni’ (Place of the Pots) is...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Chief Chinengundu Mashayamombe’s stronghold, Fort Martin and Cemetery

Note: only Fort Martin and the cemetery have been visited at this time, the other sites will be...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Early Mail Services

The earliest mail service was by runner through Bechuanaland (modern-day Botswana) between Mafeking...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.