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

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Nurses Memorial

What follows is a shortened description of the journey from Beira to Penhalonga in 1891 by Rosanna...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The Pioneer's Cemetery in Old Umtali and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from two sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Diana's Vow

Elizabeth Goodall whose superb paintings of rock sites are kept at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

Penhalonga Church

Penhalonga Church is aligned east – west, with the sanctuary in the east and the Church porch...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Arthur Shearley Cripps Shrine near Chivhu

In her excellent article, Mrs Dorothy Finn says that Cripps was not related to Lionel Cripps, or...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Midlands

Lion Park

ActivitiesThere were about twelve adult lions at the time of our visit; they are kept in...

Category:

Game Park

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.