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

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Rhodes Summer-house

The Summer House is where Cecil Rhodes’ coffin rested on the night before the final trek to...

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Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Nyahokwe Village

Evidence from excavations carried out on site show there has been occupation from hunter-gatherer...

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Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

Photographs and descriptions of all the principal individuals involved in this article are given in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Chinhoyi (formerly Sinoia) Caves is a National Monument and in 1975 was designated as a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Western Cave

The Western cave also has a mass of paintings, but most are now rather faded and...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and “my last hunt” to Hartley Hills in 1870

Background For biographical details see the article Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.