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

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Mutare Main Park Aloe Gardens

The original bold outline of the Main Park with its central boulevard and supporting...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Article – When Bulawayo was young

This article comprises items in brief from early newspapers included in the Occupation of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450 - c.1480

The first limitation in writing any article on the Mutapa state is the absence of original and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Zimbabwe’s political leadership belongs to the old order; it’s time they were replaced by new leaders like Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema

IntroductionIn 2025 Maia Sandu, Moldova’s President was nominated The Telegraph’s World...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Save River (formerly Sabi)

The River’s proper name is Mutsave or Save (pronounce Sah-veh) and it has played a major role...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

The pub was a neat and tidy timber bar of English style with posts reaching up to support shelving...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

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.