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

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Orbicular Granite Formation

The black and white objects within the rock are called orbicules and the mass of mostly ellipsoidal...

Category:

Scenic, Geological

Province:

Matabeleland South

The system of Local Government in Southern Rhodesia

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Lake Chivero Rock Art

Crocodile RockTo the left of the of the two large crocodiles are a line of ten hunters drawn in...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Zimbabwe Government makes the correct call and bans coal exploration within Hwange National Park

Events leading up to the U-turnIn an abrupt reversal after being granted concessions to carry out...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Saving the Pangolin from the Wildlife trade where they are being increasingly trafficked

Pangolins are the most endangered mammal that you have never heard of. There are eight species of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Pink Map; how credible were Portuguese claims to Mashonaland and Manicaland before 1890?

Reality is described as the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or...

Category:

Historic

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.