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

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Khame (previously Khami) Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

BackgroundGreat Zimbabwe between 1300 to 1500AD was the largest settlement in sub-Saharan Africa,...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

The British South Africa Company and the impact of early gold mining regulations on smallworkers

In most parts of Southern Africa the landowner had the sole right to prospect on their farm, but...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Of the men who made up the Pioneer Column Adrian Darter writes: “The Pioneers were men who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Vere Stent’s recollections of Raaff’s Rangers and the Southern Column in 1893

Who was Vere Stent?Vere Palgrave Stent (1872-1941) was a journalist and war correspondent...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners produce record output, but still face challenges

The Victoria Gold belt situated south of Mt Cotopaxi and on...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe in the sights of China’s debt-trap diplomacy

AcknowledgementsThis article uses as its primary source - Power Imbalance in Africa-China...

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Other

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.