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

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Thomas Baines journey to Matabeleland in 1871 to obtain a written mineral concession from Lobengula and his return through the Limpopo Valley - Part 3

In May 1871 Baines set out once again to obtain a written concession from Lobengula, the London...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Big Tree at Mountain Home Farm

Lyn Mullin and his colleagues in the Forestry Commission, Richard Barrett and Lisle Orpen and many...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Karl Mauch, explorer and geologist and the man who claimed to be the first European to visit Great Zimbabwe

SummaryKarl Gottlieb Mauch (1837-75) was well-known in Southern Africa as the first European to...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Shamva

Shamva was originally called Abercorn, after James Hamilton, the second Duke of Abercorn (1838-1913...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Chirundu

Chirundu is the border town between Zimbabwe and Zambia with a new one-stop border control ...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Chapungu Sculpture Park and Doon Estate

Zimbabwean stone sculpture emerged in the 1950’s under the active guidance of Frank McEwan,...

Category:

Cultural

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.