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

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Giraffe Petroglyph at Mtetengwe

The term petroglyph is generally used to denote San rock engravings which have been pecked, incised...

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Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Rhodes Stables

These fine late Victorian Stables are on the west boundary of Rhodes Estate Preparatory School, now...

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Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Victoria Cross (VC) medal recipients connected with this country

The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Domboshava Cave and Hill

The Monument came under the custodianship of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe in 1936....

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

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Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Nyahokwe Village

Evidence from excavations carried out on site show there has been occupation from hunter-gatherer...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

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.