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

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Sharing and family unity

By Lamech MhondoroThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

By 1918, British aircraft were capable of carrying a fair load in addition to their crew and the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Mare Dam

Trout fly-fishing is probably the main attraction for many visitors and Inyanga is the only place...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Pit Structures

The number of pit structures that have been found is estimated to number into many hundreds. They...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Cyrene Mission

In 1939 Canon Edward Paterson, an Anglican priest born in Scotland but raised in Johannesburg, was...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Matusadona National Park; African Parks in partnership with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (PWMA)

Most of the information in this article is taken from African Parks 2023 Annual Report in an effort...

Category:

Game Park

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.