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

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Old Umtali – the second site

The name "Umtali" is derived from the African word “Mutare" meaning”...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Harare’s Historic buildings – The Kopje Area

The Queen’s Hotel was opened on 31 December 1899 on the eve of the twentieth century and...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

Inanke Cave

This well-lit cave is situated high up on the steep granite slopes of Inanke Mountain with broad...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Makumbe Cave and Lower Makumbe Cave

Makumbe CavePeter Garlake thinks that the immense Makumbe cave, 100 metres wide by 30 metres deep...

Category:

Scenic, Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings; an article on their extent and meaning

This article on Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings (often referred to in older writings as...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

Witches and Witchcraft

By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

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.