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

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Penhalonga

In 1888 Baron de Rezende, the Mozambique Company’s Director of Operations on Africa...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Gubulawayo, or Old Bulawayo (1870 – 1881) and the Indaba Tree

Below is a time line of the sequence of events, particularly in relation to the sites of the king...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Rushwaya gold-smuggling case exposes a microcosm of the corruption that exists in Zimbabwe today

The irony of the arrest of Ms Henrietta RushwayaIn June this year the then President of the...

Category:

Other

Province:

Midlands

James Dawson’s account of finding the remains of Allan Wilson and his patrol

The final stages of the 1893 occupation of MatabelelandOn 29 October 1893 King Lobengula sent a...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Thomas Baines journey to Matabeleland in 1871 to obtain a written mineral concession from Lobengula and his return through the Limpopo Valley - Part 3

In May 1871 Baines set out once again to obtain a written concession from Lobengula, the London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Madzimudzangara Cave

The paintings are so thickly painted it is quite difficult to disentangle them. Unfortunately...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.