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

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Murehwa Cave

The site is within a large domed cave with recesses to the left and right of the main cave and has...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Ziwa Ruins and Site Museum (formerly Van Niekerk Ruins)

On Google Maps from an eye altitude of 1.7KM the enclosure circles and terracing are clearly...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Matobo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

The Matobo National Park is situated within the sprawling Matobo Hills, a range of granite domes...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland South

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1828)

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1828) first commander of what became...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Mutare (formerly Umtali)

Mutare (previously known as Umtali) is Zimbabwe's third largest city with a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

The Beira and Mashonaland Railway – the Contractor’s stories

The railway was an important element of the country’s development and many excellent articles...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.