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

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Fort Hill – the first site of Umtali (now Mutare)

The first permanent settlement of Umtali was at the camp site of the BSA Police in November 1890...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Cecil House (1901)GPS Reference: 17⁰49′29.08″S 31⁰03′01.28″E2 Central...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The Market Hall (1893 – 94)

This is one of the very oldest buildings still standing. Although the building looks...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukele, 1896)

The Memorial is situated to the west of the Shangani River Bridge and it’s a mystery why it...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

To what extent did slavery exist in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe?

I have been told that slavery did not exist in the region of Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe;...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

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.