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

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Dambarare – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site

The Portuguese explorer Pêro da Covilhã first visited Sofala in 1489 and by 1505 they were given...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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

Danangombe Monument (formerly Dhlo-Dhlo Ruins)

DescriptionThe main building is made up of two large platforms, the western one covering 900 square...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Carnegie Family – three generations in the country by 1933

The photograph below is of interest because it portrays four generations of family, three of which...

Category:

Cultural

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.