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

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Gonarezhou National Park

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

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Masvingo

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

A veteran’s account from the Battle of Bembesi in 1893 and when Joe Smith knocked down Cecil Rhodes and saved his life in 1896

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

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 3)

Strickland’s Store; subsequently the Police Station and then Charter Post Office AgencyJohn...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

The Mutapa (Mwenemutapa, Monomotapa) State in its heyday c.1480 – c.1623

IntroductionThe article The Rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Railway comes to Bulawayo – the town’s festivities in November 1897

The railway reached Bulawayo at about 3pm on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 October 1897. On that day...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

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.