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

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Zimbabwe Military Museum

The Zimbabwe Military Museum began with a collection of historic aircraft stored at Thornhill Air...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

Selous House (near Esigodini)

Amongst the most renowned of the big game hunters including Baldwin, Cumming, Finaughty, Hartley,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The adventures and hardships of a shooting trip to Barotseland and the Victoria Falls in 1875 – 76

The following account is from the diary[i] of Norman MacLeod (entries are in Italics) and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Danangombe Monument (formerly Dhlo-Dhlo Ruins)

DescriptionThe main building is made up of two large platforms, the western one covering 900 square...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

EE Burke was the first to try and trace the gravesite of Willie Hartley, who he says died to the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Cleveland Dam

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Harare

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.