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

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The Paper House (including the National Mining Museum)

Within the grounds of the National Mining Museum stands a relic of the boom gold mining days called...

Category:

Geological, Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 2)

Meikles HotelResearch by Cormac Lloyd in the 1990’s revealed that the Meikles Hotel dated...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Kenneth Kaunda who died on 17 June 2021 aged 97; the last of Africa’s true Independence leaders and one of the few that stepped down

Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia following Zambia’s independence in 1964 and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Kirby family and their Salvation Army connection in early Rhodesia with the Pearson Settlement Farm from 1920 and the Howard Institute from 1923 (Part 1 of 2)

Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this article is referred to as “Dad,...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Sharing and family unity

By Lamech MhondoroThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Jack Parsonson – War ace and one of Mashonaland Country District’s most colourful characters

Original draft by Doug McClymontJack Parsonson was shot down three times - first, by Afrika Corps...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.