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

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The Planet Arcturus railway line

The most comprehensive descriptions of this 2 foot (61 cm) light railway is to be found in Robin...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Chamavara Cave

Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Masvingo

Bulawayo and the Matabele Rebellion (or Umvukela) – Part 2, after the first few weeks, a change in tactics

IntroductionMarshall Hole, the B.S.A. Company employee for over twenty-five years wrote, “...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Travelling by coach in 1890 by Major A.G. Leonard

Arthur Leonard commanded “E” Troop of the BSA Company Police which was stationed at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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

Antelope Park

The 1,200 hectare private game park offers a wide variety of activities suitable for all ages and...

Category:

Game Park, Other

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.