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

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Chishawasha Mission Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

Architect: Fr Richartz, Client: Society of Jesus, Builder: Jesuit Brothers and people of the...

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Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?

What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?A team of international and Chinese...

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Other

Province:

Harare

Strategies for minimising human – elephant conflict in Zimbabwe

Because of ever increasing human growth and encroachment into wildlife habitat, degraded foraging,...

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Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Marange Diamonds – Zimbabwe’s natural resource stolen from the nation

AcknowledgmentsMuch of the basic content of this article owes its origin and details to the work...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His second journey described from 16 May to 30 October 1871 (Vol 3)

IntroductionThis synopsis is taken from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Bambata Cave - rock art paintings

Description of the archaeological excavations at Bambata CaveBambata cave was first explored in...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.