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

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Zimbabwe on World Elephant Day 12 August 2021

Today we are reminded that conflict between people and wild animals is one of the main threats to...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Devil’s Pass and Fort Watts

Fort Watts and Castle Zonga EstateThe position of Fort Watts was given by Mike...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa in 1891-2 (Part 2 of 5 - Arrival in the Barotse Valley)

29 November 1891. “This morning, instead of starting, the carriers, led by two rascals, Bwete...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Gweru Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

List of Victims named on the Gweru MemorialNamesDate of DeathDetailsMilitary ...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Midlands

Zimbabwe in antique maps of South Eastern Africa

In Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia, a general atlas of the world is the first map of Africa....

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Memorial to Bertrand and Aleth de Guitaut

On the 14th April 1955 a honeymoon couple flew into the mountain at this spot due east of Bulawayo...

Category:

Scenic, Other

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.