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

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Hot Springs

The Rupisi Hot Springs are at the headwaters of the Rupisi River, about twenty miles in a...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

The arrival of the AmaNdebele in Matabeleland and the succession of King Lobengula

Migration of the amaNdebele to MatabelelandWhen Mzilikazi left the Transvaal[1] they all came...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

By 1918, British aircraft were capable of carrying a fair load in addition to their crew and the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Snatched from death in a flooded river

This article is about the perils of maintaining the Telegraph line in 1893 with the incident...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

‘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

The Zambezi Society

The Zambezi Society( www.zamsoc.org) conserving the wildlife and wilderness values of the...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

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.