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

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Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Natural Site

The top ten World sites include three from Africa; Victoria Falls, the great Rift Valley in Kenya...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Cultural, Geological

Province:

Matabeleland North

The British South Africa Company – establishing an administration in the early days of the occupation of Mashonaland

IntroductionThe core of this article is a paper by Honest Elias Koke entitled Unfulfilled Promises...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Thomas Leask’s two journeys to the Zambezi in 1868 and 1869

Background For biographical details see the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Battle of Tshingengoma or Sikombo’s stronghold

This Google Earth view showing the line of advance of Plumer’s forces to the Tshingengoma...

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Province:

Matabeleland South

Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings

Much of the detail has been covered by Fraser Edkins of the killing of Ebenezer Crouch Edkins at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.