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

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Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

The previous year the pioneer column on 11 July 1890 had crossed the Shashi River at the beginning...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Poaching and recent trophy hunting controversy

PoachingThe current poaching situation has reached crisis proportions in many countries of the...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Some backgroundThomas Leask (1839 – 1912) was born at Aglath, Stenness in the Orkney Islands...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The uses of cattle in Shona Society

By Langton DoreThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Oh dear, another foiled gold smuggling attempt is linked to the Zimbabwe President’s family

Some months ago, we reported that on 26 October 2020 Henrietta Rushwaya was caught at Robert...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Harare Toposcope

Visits to the Harare Toposcope are best avoided. Skipper Hoste Drive that visitors use to drive up...

Category:

Scenic

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.