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

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Angwa (Ongoe) – Afro-Portuguese Feira sites in Mashonaland West

IntroductionIn August 1945, the same month that the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Zimbabwe’s Game Rangers on the front-line of the fight against the illegal wildlife trade and poaching

This article pays homage to the Game Rangers, both men and women from government agencies such as...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Arthur Shearley Cripps Shrine near Chivhu

In her excellent article, Mrs Dorothy Finn says that Cripps was not related to Lionel Cripps, or...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Midlands

Chimanimani National Park

Although the entire mountain range of about 50 kilometres is called the Chimanimani, the name...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Canned Lion hunting and the horrible trade to the Far East in wild animal parts

The Daily Telegraph on 15 June 2020 carried an editorial promoting Michael Ashcroft’s newly...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Hwange National Park

One of the best-known protected areas in Zimbabwe is Hwange National Park. This Park is also...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.