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

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Fort Hill – the first site of Umtali (now Mutare)

The first permanent settlement of Umtali was at the camp site of the BSA Police in November 1890...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Rhodes Summer-house

The Summer House is where Cecil Rhodes’ coffin rested on the night before the final trek to...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Was Archibald Ross Colquhoun; first Administrator of Mashonaland 1890 – 92, a failure or was he actively undermined by Dr Jameson?

In his article ‘Colquhoun in Mashonaland: A Portrait of Failure’ in Rhodesiana...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Matobo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

The Matobo National Park is situated within the sprawling Matobo Hills, a range of granite domes...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland South

Cleveland Dam

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Harare

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

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.