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

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Gaika Mine Manager’s house

Que Que (now Kwekwe) was originally called Sebakwe after the nearby river, but as the name was...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Chief Tendai Mutasa's Indaba Tree, Penhalonga

Under this tree on what is called Sabi Ophir Hill, Machera we Hondo [Cloth of War] Chief of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Old Umtali – the second site

The name "Umtali" is derived from the African word “Mutare" meaning”...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

James Theodore Bent and Mabel Virginia Anna Bent gave many artefacts to the British Museum from Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) collected during and after their excavation at Great Zimbabwe in 1891

IntroductionThe story of the Bents’ excavation at Great Zimbabwe is told in the article The...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Museum of Human Sciences

Originally opened in 1903 and called the Queen Victoria Museum, it mainly focuses on archaeology...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Harare

Richard Frewen, the man who annoyed Lobengula and the consequent deaths of the Colonial government emissaries on their way to the Victoria Falls

Frewen’s journal was copied from the original into a manuscript volume along with many of his...

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.