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

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An Avenue of Kapok Trees outside Shamva

Just outside Shamva, on Rutherdale Estate, which borders Maxton Estate, on the east side of the A13...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Runde (formerly Lundi) River strip road

In 1900 there were no properly constructed roads in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and when travelling on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Malaria kills a child every minute worldwide; will a new vaccine save them?

Some Key Facts about MalariaGlobally in 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases and...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

James Theodore Bent and Mabel Virginia Anna Bent gave many artefacts to the British Museum from Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) collected during and after their excavation at Great Zimbabwe in 1891

IntroductionThe story of the Bents’ excavation at Great Zimbabwe is told in the article The...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Manemba Cave

On the far left of the panel are lines of figures, some carrying heavy sticks on their shoulders, a...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Wildlife hero from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s Amos Gwema won the 2020 Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award sponsored by the Nick Maughan...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.