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...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Harare Toposcope

Visits to the Harare Toposcope are best avoided. Skipper Hoste Drive that visitors use to drive up...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Harare

Thomas Baines’ disastrous 1858-9 Zambezi Expedition with David Livingstone

The Zambezi expedition There is no consistency in the Victorian descriptions of the 1858-9 Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896) has now been vandalised

The Memorial is situated to the west of the Shangani River Bridge and it’s a mystery why it...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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

Cattle: the life-blood of Shona Society

By Fidelis Bere-Chikara These stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

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.