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

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Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

The word Chipangali comes from the Chinyanja language in eastern Zambia where Viv Wilson began his...

Category:

Game Park, Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Old Fort Hartley and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Below is a general map at 1:250,000 scale showing the principal places of interest referred to in...

Category:

Ruins, Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Of the men who made up the Pioneer Column Adrian Darter writes: “The Pioneers were men who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The Paper House (including the National Mining Museum)

Within the grounds of the National Mining Museum stands a relic of the boom gold mining days called...

Category:

Geological, Historic, Building

Province:

Midlands

Harare Toposcope

Visits to the Harare Toposcope are best avoided. Skipper Hoste Drive that visitors use to drive up...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Harare

Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria)

Masvingo is Zimbabwe's oldest town; the Pioneer Column left from Tuli in the far south of...

Category:

Cultural

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.