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

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Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

IntroductionThompson’s parents[1] came to South Africa in 1850, Francis Robert ‘...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Examining the background of Poachers

This article takes its inspiration from a report by Sadé Moneron, Adam Armstrong and David Newton...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

The death of Cecil John Rhodes at his Muizenberg cottage in 1902

Rhodes in 1901From March to May in 1901 Rhodes was at Kimberley overseeing De Beers business and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Avondale and the story of Countess Billie

AvondaleEdward O’Connell Farrell (1850 – 1910)Edward O’Connell Farrell, a pioneer...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Zimbabwe has wonderful birdlife – take a guided tour with an expert

Text by Stuart Beverley.There are over 685 species of birds that have been recorded in Zimbabwe,...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland Central

First Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, KCB, DSO – the Great War engineer whose mine explosions at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917 were heard 240 kms away in London

Sir John Norton-Griffiths, First Baronet, KCB, DSO (13 July 1871 – 27 September 1930)...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.