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

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Nyanga National Park

The National Park is the oldest in Zimbabwe, having started as Rhodes Inyanga Estate, а...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Manicaland

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Cecil House (1901)GPS Reference: 17⁰49′29.08″S 31⁰03′01.28″E2 Central...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

The Jameson Raid

IntroductionThe Jameson Raid caused enormous interest and controversy at the time and arguably was...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

What is the Chinese Motivation in Zimbabwe?

Introduction – why is Eddie Cross’s article so relevant?The article below by Eddie...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Harare

Old Umtali – the second site

The name "Umtali" is derived from the African word “Mutare" meaning”...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Crooks Corner

When Stephanus Barnard, better known by his Shangaan nickname of Bvekenya "the one who...

Category:

Historic

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.