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

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Saving the Pangolin from the Wildlife trade where they are being increasingly trafficked

Pangolins are the most endangered mammal that you have never heard of. There are eight species of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The Traveller’s Tree

Lyn Mullin in his Historic Trees of Zimbabwe describes this large hollow baobab tree, Adansonia...

Category:

Other

Province:

Manicaland

Richard Frewen, the man who annoyed Lobengula and the consequent deaths of the Colonial government emissaries on their way to the Victoria Falls

Frewen’s journal was copied from the original into a manuscript volume along with many of his...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Chimanimani National Park

Although the entire mountain range of about 50 kilometres is called the Chimanimani, the name...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Manicaland

Terracing and Water Furrows

Archaeologists say terraces are the most characteristic of Nyanga ruins and there are...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Re-examining the events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’

Gold fever prior to 1890Galbraith reminds us that the young men who made up the Pioneer Column in...

Category:

Historic

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.