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

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Santa Barbara Chapel, Kariba

The little Chapel of Santa Barbara is situated at the top of the hill known as Kariba Heights and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

Matopos Railway Terminus

The terminus, now in a very dilapidated state, is on the old rail route into the Matobo Hills. By...

Category:

Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

The word Chipangali comes from the Chinyanja language in eastern Zambia where Viv Wilson began his...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The history of the Chiota tribe

By Patience TuhweThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Mumurgwe Hill, or Lion’s Head

On the southernmost boulder are four fish and a kudu cow in yellow, whose lower legs were once...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Fort Ingwenya and Cemetery

Fort Ingwenya (either from Ngwena (chiShona for crocodile) or Ingwenya (isiNdebele for hippo)...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

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.