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

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Maramuca, a Portuguese Feira dating from 1660 - 1680

There a number of direct and indirect nineteenth century references to the feira at Maramuca. In...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Nyaminyami, the Zambezi River God

The isolated world of the Tonga people was torn apart from 1956 when the Governments of Northern...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Percy Clark in his book Autobiography of an Old Drifter tells how Charles Fox, nephew of Sir...

Category:

Scenic, Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland North

Silozwane Cave - rock art paintings

Why Visit?This great cave was explored in 1908 by F.P. Mennell and E.C. Chubb who took three days...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate appealed to Lobengula, King of the amaNdebele for a mineral...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Bvumba Mountains

A few kilometres outside Mutare, the road to the Bvumba starts its scenic climb, winding...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

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.