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

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Gweru Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

List of Victims named on the Gweru MemorialNamesDate of DeathDetailsMilitary ...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Midlands

Ewanrigg Botanical Garden

Harold Christian, a farmer, started the aloe collection in his garden and they were such a success...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Kingsley Fairbridge – who was he?

Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (1885-1924), was the founder of a child emigration scheme to British...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Ngezi Recreational Park

If you need a weekend’s break in the country where you can hear the hippos snorting in the...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Midlands

Cattle and Social Status

By D.H. MakamureThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.