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

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Bvumba Mountains

A few kilometres outside Mutare, the road to the Bvumba starts its scenic climb, winding...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Leopard Rock Hotel

Situated thirty kilometres from Mutare by tar road along a spectacular road through the Bvumba...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

Diana's Vow

Elizabeth Goodall whose superb paintings of rock sites are kept at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

Mutare Main Park Aloe Gardens

The original bold outline of the Main Park with its central boulevard and supporting...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukele, 1896)

The Memorial is situated to the west of the Shangani River Bridge and it’s a mystery why it...

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

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.