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

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The historic and world-renowned Cyrene Mission and its Chapel face the threat of an illegal settler invasion

IntroductionThe following information has been taken from the school website and newspaper /...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Pieter Lourens van der Byl’s grave at Mona Farm

The van der Byl trek of 1891 was sponsored as part of the policy to unite Boers and British in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Mutoko (or Tere) Monument

Local Budya people believe the ruins were built and occupied in the 1600’s by Makate, a man...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Mort's Tree

With a height of 22 metres and crown spread of 24 metres in 1988, this magnificent tree must have...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The uses of cattle in Shona Society

By Langton DoreThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

‘Chimurenga’: The Shona Rising of 1896-7; a summary of David Beach’s article

This summary of David Beach’s article of the same name that was published in the Journal of...

Category:

Historic

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.