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

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Veterans of the 1893 Occupation of Matabeleland

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Santa Barbara Chapel, Kariba

The little Chapel of Santa Barbara is situated at the top of the hill known as Kariba Heights and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

A rainmaking ceremony and the burial of a Chief

By Sydney NyatsanzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Ranche House (1899) - Ken and Lillian Mew

The large stand of over 5 hectares on the western side of the kopje given to Johnson, Heany and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Harare

My Matabeleland Experiences (1897-1903)

IntroductionThis article was written by P.A. Stuart in the 1942 NADA publication – the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Memorial to Bertrand and Aleth de Guitaut

On the 14th April 1955 a honeymoon couple flew into the mountain at this spot due east of Bulawayo...

Category:

Scenic, Other

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.