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

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Roora and Marriage

By Lydia JanhiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Old Fort Hartley and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Below is a general map at 1:250,000 scale showing the principal places of interest referred to in...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Saving the Pangolin from the Wildlife trade where they are being increasingly trafficked

Pangolins are the most endangered mammal that you have never heard of. There are eight species of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

A veteran’s account from the Battle of Bembesi in 1893 and when Joe Smith knocked down Cecil Rhodes and saved his life in 1896

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Kazuma Pan National Park

The park is situated in the north western corner of Zimbabwe between Kazungula (the border to...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Massapa (Baranda Farm) – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site in Mashonaland Central

Innocent Pikirayi states that the feiras and other trading settlements established in the late 16th...

Category:

Historic

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.