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

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Douglas Tannahill – a tribute to an artist and his connection with Shamva

Douglas worked for Zimbabwe’s agricultural extension service, Agritex for most of his career...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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

Hope Fountain Mission

Background and establishment of the first Mission station at Inyati (now Inyathi)The Rev. Robert...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Fort Ingwenya and Cemetery

Fort Ingwenya (either from Ngwena (chiShona for crocodile) or Ingwenya (isiNdebele for hippo)...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Henry Borrow, after whom Borrowdale is named

AcknowledgementsA number of authors have used Henry Borrow’s letters in the past with...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

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.