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

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Postal service in 1890 – 1892; the post-stations from Fort Tuli to Salisbury

Much of the detail, particularly quotes, contained below comes from the article by Dave Collis...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Colin Harding – the man in charge of the execution of Chief Chingaira Makoni – his life and career in early Rhodesia

Edwin Colin Harding had a very distinguished career being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Leopard Rock Hotel

Situated thirty kilometres from Mutare by tar road along a spectacular road through the Bvumba...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

The Cecil Kop Nature Reserve

Cecil Kop Nature Reserve is located just two kilometres from the city centre and is managed and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Manicaland

Notorious kingpin of a Malawi wildlife crime syndicate, Yunhua Lin is jailed for 14 years

There is a still a big demand in Asia for elephant ivory, rhino horns and pangolins for their...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

St Mary’s Church at Serima Mission

Serima Church, Hospital and School complex are situated within the Serima Communal Lands, south of...

Category:

Building

Province:

Masvingo

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.