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

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Matusadona National Park; African Parks in partnership with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (PWMA)

Most of the information in this article is taken from African Parks 2023 Annual Report in an effort...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

BackgroundMuch of the material quoted below is sourced from the comprehensive articles by Ana Roque...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Big game hunters in present-day Zimbabwe until 1880

E.E. Burke in the Foreword to Bethell’s Notes on South African Hunting says the story...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

This rotten Law does Zimbabwe no credit at all; Tendai Biti says, “Not even Apartheid Rhodesia passed such repugnant law”

How did this oppressive piece of legislation come about?At the same time as President Mnangagwa...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

St Mary’s Church at Serima Mission

Serima Church, Hospital and School complex are situated within the Serima Communal Lands, south of...

Category:

Building

Province:

Masvingo

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.