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

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The old Transport Road

Stanley Portal Hyatt came to Rhodesia on the Great northern Road when railhead was at Palapye...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Diana's Vow

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

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Manicaland

Thomas Baines’ disastrous 1858-9 Zambezi Expedition with David Livingstone

The Zambezi expedition There is no consistency in the Victorian descriptions of the 1858-9 Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Gambarimwe Cave

Top left is the largest camp scene with a many couples accompanied by children, their bags and...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Hurungwe and Charara Safari Areas

This hunting area is situated in the Kariba eastern basin and extends from the Zambezi River at...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Colin Harding – the man in charge of the execution of Chief Chingaira Makoni – his life and career in early Rhodesia

Edwin Colin Harding had a very distinguished career being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and...

Category:

Historic

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.