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

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Orton’s Drift over the Sebakwe River

Below is a Rhodesia 1898 One Penny Duty stamp with an Orton’s Drift Post Office agency...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Quentin Barnett’s childhood memories of life at Widgeon Ranch, Felixburg, Rhodesia 1956-1971

My Grandfather, Thomas Wilkie Barnett, died on Alanberry Farm (neighbouring Widgeon Ranch) in March...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Eton and Cambridge (1859 – 1881)Hubert Hervey was born on 19 May 1859 at Eaton Place, London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Claremont Soapstone Sculptors

The farm kiosk selling jam, chutneys and vegetables is also highly recommended

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

No women were included amongst the Pioneers, but it soon became clear they would be needed for...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Harare

KoBulawayo, 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

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.