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

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Lake Kariba Recreational Park

There are 102 islands on the lake amongst which the following are well-known: Fothergill, Spurwing...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Esigodini (formerly Essexvale)

Esigodini is a village situated on the A6 National road to Beit Bridge and on the branch line from...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Mary Blackwood Lewis’s letters on her journey to Mashonaland from Beira 1897-1901

Letter from Beira dated October 15th 1897The most amazing thing happened the other day. I am with...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

The word Chipangali comes from the Chinyanja language in eastern Zambia where Viv Wilson began his...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Crooks Corner

When Stephanus Barnard, better known by his Shangaan nickname of Bvekenya "the one who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Umfurudzi Safari Park

Animal Species: Elephant, Eland, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, leopard, hippo, Nile crocodile, kudu,...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.