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

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The Paper House (including the National Mining Museum)

Within the grounds of the National Mining Museum stands a relic of the boom gold mining days called...

Category:

Geological, Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings

Much of the detail has been covered by Fraser Edkins of the killing of Ebenezer Crouch Edkins at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Naletale Monument (or Nharatare “straight-line “or Nhandare “stadium”)

As the visitor approaches the southern side of the building, the elaborate and highly...

Category:

Scenic, Ruins, Building

Province:

Midlands

The Matabele uprising or First Umvukela Indaba Site (Rhodes Indaba site)

General Carrington had been sent by the British Government to take over the military command of the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Avondale Flea Market

The Avondale flea market is open seven days a week unlike its main rival the market at Sam Levy...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Chikupu Rock Art Shelter

Cave (1) is very easy to enter at ground level under a fence that has been erected to keep out...

Category:

Rock Art

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.