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

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Lake Kariba

There are many stories that are put forward to explain the name Kariba. Local elders say that close...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Selous House (near Esigodini)

Amongst the most renowned of the big game hunters including Baldwin, Cumming, Finaughty, Hartley,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

EE Burke was the Principal Archives Officer at the Rhodesian National Archives and wrote the first...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Diana’s Pool and Embizeni Chalets

Situated within the Matobo Communal lands, the word ‘Embizeni’ (Place of the Pots) is...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Thetford Game Reserve

If there is only the time for half a day’s game drive, then Thetford Game Reserve, which...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The 1903 Ivel Agricultural Motor No 141 in the Mutare Museum; one of only seven that still exist today

The inventor of the Ivel was Dan Albone (1860-1906) the youngest of eight children. On his ninth...

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.