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

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Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

The Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Pioneer Cemetery reads: ...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

South Africa makes the correct decision on the future of wildlife including lion breeding, rhino horn and the elephant ivory trade

South Africa makes the correct decision on the future of wildlife including lion breeding, rhino...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

World’s View Matobo, Rhodes’ grave and the Shangani Memorial

Cecil Rhodes, Dr Leander Starr Jameson, Charles P.J. Coghlan, Allan Wilson and the remains of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

John Bradburne – the former warden at Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre, a candidate for Sainthood?

Born on 14 June 1921 in Cumbria, England, his father was an Anglican clergyman. When World War...

Category:

Cultural, Other

Province:

Mashonaland East

First treks into Manicaland

One of the earliest groups of trekkers was Laurence van der Byl and his party of twenty five young...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

William Finaughty (1843 – 1917) one of the great elephant hunters who knew both Mzilikazi and Lobengula and brought the two ship’s cannon now at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo.

William Finaughty, “Old Bill” knew Mzilikazi well. Born in Grahamstown in 1843 he left...

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.