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

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Blackwater Fever

In his amusing and evocative book Percy M. Clark provides an insight into life at the Old Drift...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland West

Pink Elephants

Pink Elephants comprises six faded pink elephants high above an overhanging shelter at the summit...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

Kenneth Kaunda who died on 17 June 2021 aged 97; the last of Africa’s true Independence leaders and one of the few that stepped down

Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia following Zambia’s independence in 1964 and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Carnegie Family – three generations in the country by 1933

The photograph below is of interest because it portrays four generations of family, three of which...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Thuli Safari Area

The Thuli Safari area is a protected area in south-western Zimbabwe. It comprises four reserves...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Luanze Earthworks and Church

Luanze was the site of an important trading fair, called a feira, which was established in the 1580...

Category:

Ruins, Historic, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.