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

Explore by Province

Featured Sites

Devil’s Pass and Fort Watts

Fort Watts and Castle Zonga EstateThe position of Fort Watts was given by Mike...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Three oral history statements made in 1937 by amaNdebele warriors present at the killing of Allan Wilson and thirty-three other Europeans on 4 December 1893 at the Shangani River

Three oral history statements were made in 1937 by amaNdebele warriors present at the killing of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Rhodes’ Apostles – who were they and what happened to them?

SourcesI have used mainly Robert Cary’s book The Pioneer Corps and Colonel A.S. Hickman...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Zimbabwe Military Museum

The Zimbabwe Military Museum began with a collection of historic aircraft stored at Thornhill Air...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second largest town after the capital Harare; it is twinned with...

Category:

Cultural, Historic, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

The previous year the pioneer column on 11 July 1890 had crossed the Shashi River at the beginning...

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.