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

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Orbicular Granite Formation

The black and white objects within the rock are called orbicules and the mass of mostly ellipsoidal...

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Scenic, Geological

Province:

Matabeleland South

Roora and Marriage

By Lydia JanhiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Khami – capital of the Torwa state

Khami is spread over a 180 hectare area along the Khami River, with the site comprised of 14...

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Ruins

Province:

Bulawayo

Harare’s Historic buildings – Robert Mugabe Road (formerly Manica Road)

Meikles BuildingsThe Meikle Brothers came to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1892. Stewart opened a...

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Building

Province:

Harare

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Of the men who made up the Pioneer Column Adrian Darter writes: “The Pioneers were men who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Murehwa Cave

The site is within a large domed cave with recesses to the left and right of the main cave and has...

Category:

Rock Art

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.