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

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Tsindi Ruins (formerly called Lekkerwater Ruins)

Peter Garlake reminds us that that stone enclosures, such as we see at Tsindi Hill, served a...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Felixburg

Felixburg serves an area of small communal farms and commercial farms and small gold mines in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Savé Valley Conservancy

The Savé (pronounced Sah-vey) Valley Conservancy is located in the south-east lowveld, about 70...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

Rebellion days in Bulawayo: When the Matabele rose in 1896

This short article, chiefly useful for the photographs, appeared in the publication of the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Lord Randolph Churchill’s visit to Rhodesia in 1891

Lord Randolph’s party journeyed by sea to Cape Town and then by rail to Kimberley where they...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Percy Clark in his book Autobiography of an Old Drifter tells how Charles Fox, nephew of Sir...

Category:

Scenic, Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.