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

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Nyunteya Cave & Grain Bins

Grain-bins are relatively common in the Matobo Hills, a World Heritage Site in south western...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Patrick Campbell, husband of Mrs Patrick Campbell who went to Mashonaland and was killed in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Patrick Campbell, husband of Mrs Patrick Campbell who went to Mashonaland and was killed in the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Richard Frewen, the man who annoyed Lobengula and the consequent deaths of the Colonial government emissaries on their way to the Victoria Falls

Frewen’s journal was copied from the original into a manuscript volume along with many of his...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

James Dawson’s account of finding the remains of Allan Wilson and his patrol

The final stages of the 1893 occupation of MatabelelandOn 29 October 1893 King Lobengula sent a...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

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

Dan Judson and the Africa Transcontinental Telegraph Co

In the article on the Mazowe Patrol, under Mashonaland Central, I have noted that Dan Judson, the...

Category:

Historic

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.