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

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Gweru (formerly called Gwelo)

In pre-colonial times Gweru may have been one of the outposts of the Rozvi Empire and was almost...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

St Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mutirikwi, the smallest chapel in Zimbabwe

In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...

Category:

Building

Province:

Masvingo

Khame (previously Khami) Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

BackgroundGreat Zimbabwe between 1300 to 1500AD was the largest settlement in sub-Saharan Africa,...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

The Bent’s archaeological expedition to Great Zimbabwe in 1891 and the prominent part played by Mabel Bent

SourceMuch of the information in this article comes from the very comprehensive website Theodore...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Fort Que Que (now Kwekwe)

Background In late March 1896 many isolated prospectors and traders were killed in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

The naturalist Frank Oates who visited the Victoria Falls on 31 December 1874 and died only 36 days later of fever

Frank Oates (1840 - 1875) was the quintessential Victorian naturalist; his discoveries are...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.