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

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Mutoko (or Tere) Monument

Local Budya people believe the ruins were built and occupied in the 1600’s by Makate, a man...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Sentinel Ranch Dinosaur Fossils

According to Wikipedia Massospondylus( (mas-oh-spon-di-las); from Greek massōn, "longer...

Category:

Geological, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Fort Umlugulu (previously Fort Nsezi, or Sugar-bush Camp) and the Cemetery

AmaNdebele tacticsThere is every reason to believe that the Matabele uprising or First Umvukela was...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Fort Rixon Rebellion Memorial (Matabele Uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

The memorial names the following civilians on the north face:To the memory of James Cunningham, his...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Fort Hill and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Below is a general map at 1:250,000 scale showing the principal places of interest referred to in...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

National Heroes Acre

The grandiose obelisk of National heroes Acre or simply Heroes' Acre, overlooking the town, was...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

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.