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

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Ngezi Recreational Park

If you need a weekend’s break in the country where you can hear the hippos snorting in the...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Midlands

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

The word Chipangali comes from the Chinyanja language in eastern Zambia where Viv Wilson began his...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

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

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Natural Site

Mana Pools National Park together with Charara, Hurungwe, Sapi, Chewore and Dande Safari...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Karl Mauch, explorer and geologist and the man who claimed to be the first European to visit Great Zimbabwe

SummaryKarl Gottlieb Mauch (1837-75) was well-known in Southern Africa as the first European to...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Chirundu

Chirundu is the border town between Zimbabwe and Zambia with a new one-stop border control ...

Category:

Scenic

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.