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

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Macheke Rock Paintings

In a 2014 newspaper article Cathy Buckle visited these rock paintings to show them to a foreign...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

World Wildlife Crime Report – Rhino Horn

IntroductionThis article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on 13 September 1890

A summary of his remarkable careerOn 10 December 2014 an important set of medals awarded to...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Field Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE and his connection with Matabeleland

Field Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE and his...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Battle of Bembesi (called Egodade by the amaNdebele) on the 1 November 1893

Following the Battle of Shangani River (called Bonko by the amaNdebele) on 25th October, the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate appealed to Lobengula, King of the amaNdebele for a mineral...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.