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

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Arcturus village

Arcturus the nameThere are a number of articles on place names in Zimbabwe, but none mention the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Matendere Monument

I have not personally visited Matendere Monument and would appreciate any recent photographs which...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Zimbabwe Government makes the correct call and bans coal exploration within Hwange National Park

Events leading up to the U-turnIn an abrupt reversal after being granted concessions to carry out...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Memorial to Bertrand and Aleth de Guitaut

On the 14th April 1955 a honeymoon couple flew into the mountain at this spot due east of Bulawayo...

Category:

Scenic, Other

Province:

Matabeleland South

Chishawasha Mission Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

Architect: Fr Richartz, Client: Society of Jesus, Builder: Jesuit Brothers and people of the...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Some backgroundThomas Leask (1839 – 1912) was born at Aglath, Stenness in the Orkney Islands...

Category:

Historic

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.