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

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Lalapanzi

Lalapanzi is a small village in the Midland province in Zimbabwe. It straddles...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Midlands

The Inodzi Gums – the tallest trees in Zimbabwe

Lyn Mullin and his colleagues in the Forestry Commission, Richard Barrett and Lisle Orpen and many...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

William Finaughty (1843 – 1917) one of the great elephant hunters who knew both Mzilikazi and Lobengula and brought the two ship’s cannon now at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo.

William Finaughty, “Old Bill” knew Mzilikazi well. Born in Grahamstown in 1843 he left...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Zimbabwe’s artisanal gold miners risk being poisoned with mercury (Hg)

Gold is integral to Zimbabwe’s economyArtisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)[i]...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Background This article is from several sources. The first resulted from a visit to the Old Umtali...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Zimbabwe on World Elephant Day 12 August 2021

Today we are reminded that conflict between people and wild animals is one of the main threats to...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.