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

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Hillside Dams

In the 1880’s the area was known as Matsheumhlope, or White Stones, the site of one of King...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Savé Valley Conservancy

The Savé (pronounced Sah-vey) Valley Conservancy is located in the south-east lowveld, about 70...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

An 1886 journey through the Bechuanaland Protectorate along the Western Old Lake Route to the Victoria Falls that nearly ended in disaster

The book by Alfred James Bethell is compiled from a series of articles that he wrote up for The...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Esigodini (formerly Essexvale)

Esigodini is a village situated on the A6 National road to Beit Bridge and on the branch line from...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Blackwater Fever

In his amusing and evocative book Percy M. Clark provides an insight into life at the Old Drift...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland West

Halfway House Agricultural Machinery

Robey & Co. Ltd Portable Steam Engine There are three portable engines at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.