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

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Snatched from death in a flooded river

This article is about the perils of maintaining the Telegraph line in 1893 with the incident...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Mort's Tree

With a height of 22 metres and crown spread of 24 metres in 1988, this magnificent tree must have...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1928)

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1828) first commander of what became...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The Matabele Campaign of 1893 - the march on Bulawayo

Dr Jameson may have decided on 18 July 1893 that the only solution was a military one, [i...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Mutare (formerly Umtali)

Mutare (previously known as Umtali) is Zimbabwe's third largest city with a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

HistoryChief Mbari lived on the site of Harare kopje before the occupation in 1890, his brother...

Category:

Cultural, Historic, Building

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.