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

Explore by Province

Featured Sites

Operation Noah Memorial

Few outside of conservation circles know the name Rupert Fothergill today, or remember the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Africa’s National Parks in the midst of a pandemic-induced conservation crisis

An improving wildlife situation prior to COVID-19In the last few years there have been lots of...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele Rebellion (Umvukela) as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7 and the shooting of the Mlimo

Terence Ranger Obituary (29 Nov 1929 – 3 Jan 2015)In The Guardian Professor Terence ‘...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The Newton Commission conclusions on the ‘Victoria incident’

IntroductionThe events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’ are included in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

The decline of the Mutapa state c.1623 – c.1902

The cultural, political and military decline of the Mutapa state had probably begun from the 1590...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Tengenenge Sculpture Village

Tengenenge is situated against the Great Dyke, seemingly a typical African village in the North of...

Category:

Cultural

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.