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

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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

Mount Nyangani (formerly Mount Inyangani)

The landscape of Mount Nyangani is not as rugged and untamed as in Chimanimani; the...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

The death of Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917)

IntroductionThis article concentrates on the end of Selous’ life. Two names on the Great War...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Jairos Jiri Association – the legacy of Zimbabwe’s greatest Philanthropist and an inspiration to all Zimbabweans

In the current economic climate where the Government’s priorities are elsewhere, disabled men...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Leopard Rock Hotel

Situated thirty kilometres from Mutare by tar road along a spectacular road through the Bvumba...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Cecil House (1901)GPS Reference: 17⁰49′29.08″S 31⁰03′01.28″E2 Central...

Category:

Building

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.