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

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Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

By 1918, British aircraft were capable of carrying a fair load in addition to their crew and the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

This article is intended to provide an overview of the route and the men who made the journey in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

My Matabeleland Experiences (1897-1903)

IntroductionThis article was written by P.A. Stuart in the 1942 NADA publication – the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Mukuvisi Woodlands Wildlife and Environment Centre

A game-viewing platform (bring binoculars) and a bird hide overlook a small dam. Food is placed in...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Harare

The system of Local Government in Southern Rhodesia

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

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.