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

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The victorious march of the Salisbury and Victoria Columns into Matabeleland

Much of the material included in this article is taken from a presentation copy of Occupation of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Fort Tuli

The British South Africa (BSA) Company was granted its Royal Charter on 29th October 1889 and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Tsindi Ruins (formerly called Lekkerwater Ruins)

Peter Garlake reminds us that that stone enclosures, such as we see at Tsindi Hill, served a...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Baden-Powell in Matabeleland during 1896 where he learned the principles of Scouting

IntroductionRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 1941) (he pronounced his...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The story behind Derick Hoste who died of blackwater fever at Hartley Hills in 1893

Henry Francis “Skipper” Hoste was one of the older officers when at the age of 37 he...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Gonarezhou National Park

The Park's name means "sacred place of the elephants" or the “horn of the...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

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.