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

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Inanke Cave

This well-lit cave is situated high up on the steep granite slopes of Inanke Mountain with broad...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

The 1880 journey of Rev Father Augustus Henry Law S.J. and others to Mzila’s kraal in south-eastern Zimbabwe

AcknowledgementsThe Zambesi Mission itself is comprehensively covered in the book Journey to...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Massapa (Baranda Farm) – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site in Mashonaland Central

Innocent Pikirayi states that the feiras and other trading settlements established in the late 16th...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Some backgroundThomas Leask (1839 – 1912) was born at Aglath, Stenness in the Orkney Islands...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Forbes’ retreat down the Shangani river in December 1893

For background information on the incidents leading up to this event read the article James Dawson...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Roora and Marriage

By Lydia JanhiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...

Category:

Cultural

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.