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

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Trek Memorial, Chimanimani (formerly Melsetter)

The original village of Chimanimani was founded by Thomas Moodie in 1892, but in 1895 it moved...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Natural Site

The top ten World sites include three from Africa; Victoria Falls, the great Rift Valley in Kenya...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Cultural, Geological

Province:

Matabeleland North

Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town

IntroductionThe Rhodes Memorial is a tribute to the English-born politician and mining magnate...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Rickshaws and rail-trolleys at Victoria Falls

In 1874 Edwin Arnold, an editor with the London Daily Telegraph, had coined the phrase...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His first journey described from 16 February 1870 to 9 January 1871 (Vol 2)

IntroductionThis synopsis is taken from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Lalapanzi

Lalapanzi is a small village in the Midland province in Zimbabwe. It straddles...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Midlands

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.