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

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Blackwater Fever

In his amusing and evocative book Percy M. Clark provides an insight into life at the Old Drift...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland West

Orton’s Drift over the Sebakwe River

Below is a Rhodesia 1898 One Penny Duty stamp with an Orton’s Drift Post Office agency...

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Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

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,...

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Other

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Thomas Moodie’s Grave

In 1891 Dunbar Moodie travelled through Chief Gungunhana's country in Gazaland, on the borders...

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Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria)

Masvingo is Zimbabwe's oldest town; the Pioneer Column left from Tuli in the far south of...

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Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1870 after Lobengula granted a verbal mineral concession and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 2

IntroductionPart 2 covers the journey Baines made to the northern goldfields for the second time in...

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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.