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

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Nyahokwe Village

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

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Types of Witchdoctors (N’angas)

By Emmanuel Asaph Tony NapataThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Cattle: the life-blood of Shona Society

By Fidelis Bere-Chikara These stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

UDI rebellion: Rhodesia defies the world

A Rhodesia Herald supplement with the above title was published around November 11, 1971...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Macheke Rock Paintings

In a 2014 newspaper article Cathy Buckle visited these rock paintings to show them to a foreign...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Southern Cave

The Southern cave is very easy to enter at ground level under a fence that has been erected to...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.