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

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Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town

IntroductionThe Rhodes Memorial is a tribute to the English-born politician and mining magnate...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Two of Lobengula’s Relics

The fortieth anniversary of the occupation of Matabeleland was commemorated by an official...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

The word Chipangali comes from the Chinyanja language in eastern Zambia where Viv Wilson began his...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Early Mail Services

The earliest mail service was by runner through Bechuanaland (modern-day Botswana) between Mafeking...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Kariba Dam construction

The concrete arch dam is 128 metres high and 633 metres along the crest. For many years the site on...

Category:

Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings; an article on their extent and meaning

This article on Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings (often referred to in older writings as...

Category:

Ruins

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.