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

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Morally and financially bankrupt Zimbabwe government forces Zimparks to sell elephant hunts to pay Game Rangers salaries

Our government through its inept economic policies and widespread corruption is unable to provide...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Harare

Why did Portugal establish bases on the East African Coast, now Mozambique in the early sixteenth Century?

IntroductionA number of historical articles on the Portuguese in Mozambique have been written in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Thomas Leask’s two journeys to the Zambezi in 1868 and 1869

Background For biographical details see the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria)

Masvingo is Zimbabwe's oldest town; the Pioneer Column left from Tuli in the far south of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Gubulawayo, or Old Bulawayo (1870 – 1881) and the Indaba Tree

Below is a time line of the sequence of events, particularly in relation to the sites of the king...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The Victoria Cross (VC) medal recipients connected with this country

The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy...

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.