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

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Re-examining the events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’

Gold fever prior to 1890Galbraith reminds us that the young men who made up the Pioneer Column in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over land reform

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Bulawayo rejects proposal for abattoir to export donkey-skins to China

IntroductionProposed plans for a donkey abattoir in Bulawayo have been turned down to the relief of...

Category:

Other

Province:

Bulawayo

Land and the British South Africa Company - the Renny-Tailyour and Lippert concessions

The article Were Lobengula and the amaNdebele tricked by the Rudd Concession? under Bulawayo on the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

How the Ox-Wagon and transport-rider opened up this country

So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869 / 70 – background and travel by ox-wagon to Tati

IntroductionMuch of the biographic information below is from the excellent book Thomas Baines of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.