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

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Ranche House (1899) - Ken and Lillian Mew

The large stand of over 5 hectares on the western side of the kopje given to Johnson, Heany and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Harare

First treks into Manicaland

One of the earliest groups of trekkers was Laurence van der Byl and his party of twenty five young...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Museum of Human Sciences

Originally opened in 1903 and called the Queen Victoria Museum, it mainly focuses on archaeology...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Harare

Bulawayo and the Matabele Rebellion (or Umvukela) – Part 2, after the first few weeks, a change in tactics

IntroductionMarshall Hole, the B.S.A. Company employee for over twenty-five years wrote, “...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Field Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE and his connection with Matabeleland

Field Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE and his...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Santa Barbara Chapel, Kariba

The little Chapel of Santa Barbara is situated at the top of the hill known as Kariba Heights and...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.