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

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Thetford Game Reserve Rock Art Site

Background to the rock art in ZimbabweZimbabwe has one of the highest concentrations of rock...

Category:

Game Park, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Zinjanja Monument (formerly Regina Ruins)

Dr. Hans Sauer in Ex Africa published by Geoffrey Bles in 1937 and reprinted by Books of Rhodesia...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

By 1918, British aircraft were capable of carrying a fair load in addition to their crew and the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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

Orbicular Granite Formation

The black and white objects within the rock are called orbicules and the mass of mostly ellipsoidal...

Category:

Scenic, Geological

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.