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

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Pungwe Falls

The Pungwe River has its source in a swamp high in the Nyanga Hills, where as a small perennial...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869/70: His first journey described in his diaries from Tati on 4 June 1869 until the 15 February 1870 (Vol 1)

IntroductionJ.P.R. Wallis in his introduction to Volume 1 of the Northern Goldfield Diaries of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Matobo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

The Matobo National Park is situated within the sprawling Matobo Hills, a range of granite domes...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland South

Kuimba Shiri Bird Sanctuary

The bird sanctuary was founded as a non-profit organization by owner and falconer, Gary Stafford,...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Harare

Chavadzimu rock art shelter

The shelter is easily accessible being about 450 metres from the tarred road down a track which...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.