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

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Chirinda Forest and the Big Tree

Local communities call this patch of forest Tshirinda or 'Refuge', and within its embrace...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Ngezi Recreational Park

If you need a weekend’s break in the country where you can hear the hippos snorting in the...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Midlands

Domboshava Cave and Hill

The Monument came under the custodianship of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe in 1936....

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Trek Memorial, Chimanimani (formerly Melsetter)

The original village of Chimanimani was founded by Thomas Moodie in 1892, but in 1895 it moved...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Ziwa Ruins and Site Museum (formerly Van Niekerk Ruins)

On Google Maps from an eye altitude of 1.7KM the enclosure circles and terracing are clearly...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Wildfires: Zimbabwe’s scourge

The problem of wildfires is not peculiar to Zimbabwe alone, but Zimbabwe does has one of the worst...

Category:

Cultural

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.