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

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Murehwa Cave

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

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Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

How did Zimbabwe’s economy get so bad?

On the 18 April 1980 Zimbabwe gained independence. At that time the country had a strong...

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Other

Province:

Harare

The Traveller’s Tree

Lyn Mullin in his Historic Trees of Zimbabwe describes this large hollow baobab tree, Adansonia...

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Other

Province:

Manicaland

Diana's Vow

Elizabeth Goodall whose superb paintings of rock sites are kept at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human...

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Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

Rushwaya gold-smuggling case exposes a microcosm of the corruption that exists in Zimbabwe today

The irony of the arrest of Ms Henrietta RushwayaIn June this year the then President of the...

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Other

Province:

Midlands

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

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Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.