Zimbabwe Field Guide
Balancing granite boulders of the Matobo Hills at golden hour
640 sites documented

Discover the historic, cultural and wild places of Zimbabwe

From the dry-stone walls of Great Zimbabwe to remote San rock art, hidden waterfalls and teeming game parks — a detailed field guide to the places worth seeking out.

Welcome

A living guide to Zimbabwe's places

One of the purposes of this website is to reassure visitors that the whole of Zimbabwe, including those remotest corners, is safe to travel. The only way that today’s visitors and residents can appreciate the jigsaw puzzle of Zimbabwe’s history is by visiting and walking through these silent sites, examining them and reading the excellent descriptions and brochures that are available. If this guide helps those visitors a little in understanding the background, 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 get in touch.

Although I have included the details of game lodges and tented camps, that does not mean I endorse them: 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.

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Zimbabwe's ten provinces, shaded by how many sites are documented in each. Select a region to browse its sites.