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

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Gaika Mine Manager’s house

Que Que (now Kwekwe) was originally called Sebakwe after the nearby river, but as the name was...

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Building

Province:

Midlands

Zimbabwe’s illicit Gold Market hinders the country’s development

BackgroundAlmost all the information below is sourced from the Global Initiative against...

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Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Lake Chivero Rock Art

Crocodile RockTo the left of the of the two large crocodiles are a line of ten hunters drawn in...

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Rock Art

Province:

Harare

Cyrene Mission

In 1939 Canon Edward Paterson, an Anglican priest born in Scotland but raised in Johannesburg, was...

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Cultural, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Zimbabwe Military Museum

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

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Historic

Province:

Midlands

The Native Commissioner – the early years

IntroductionPrior to 1894 the British South Africa Company (BSACO) had appointed magistrates to...

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Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.