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

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Tengenenge Sculpture Village

Tengenenge is situated against the Great Dyke, seemingly a typical African village in the North of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Mutarazi Falls National Park

Only 11.5 Kilometres from Pungwe Falls, the Mutarazi Falls is located in the 2,495 hectare Mutarazi...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Manemba Cave

On the far left of the panel are lines of figures, some carrying heavy sticks on their shoulders, a...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Chirinda Forest and the Big Tree

Local communities call this patch of forest Tshirinda or 'Refuge', and within its embrace...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Fort Umlugulu (previously Fort Nsezi, or Sugar-bush Camp) and the Cemetery

AmaNdebele tacticsThere is every reason to believe that the Matabele uprising or First Umvukela was...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.