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

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Fort Tuli

The British South Africa (BSA) Company was granted its Royal Charter on 29th October 1889 and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

World's View, Nyanga

There are a three small dams, or what would be lochs in Scotland, on Little Connemara, the largest...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Chinhoyi (formerly Sinoia) Caves is a National Monument and in 1975 was designated as a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

Mwanga Lodge and Bally Vaughn Bird and Game Sanctuary

Perhaps the best way to enjoy the experience is on a day safari. Situated just 50 kilometres from...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland East

How Mutare and Manicaland were seized from the Portuguese

Before the Pioneers Column had even left Macloutsie from Fort Charter Dr Jameson, Rhodes personal...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The search for the fabled gold mines of Monomotapa (Mutapa)

King Sebastian of Portugal gave Francisco Barreto the job of leading an expedition to...

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.