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

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Zimbabwe has wonderful birdlife – take a guided tour with an expert

Text by Stuart Beverley.There are over 685 species of birds that have been recorded in Zimbabwe,...

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Other

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Mashonaland Central

The Pink Map; how credible were Portuguese claims to Mashonaland and Manicaland before 1890?

Reality is described as the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or...

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Historic

Province:

Harare

Bats are not to blame for COVID-19; Chinese wildlife farms are and what the next pandemic might look like

The precise origin of the COVID-19 virus that has wreaked such health problems and high death rates...

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Other

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Harare

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 3)

Strickland’s Store; subsequently the Police Station and then Charter Post Office AgencyJohn...

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Building

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Midlands

St Mary’s Church at Serima Mission

Serima Church, Hospital and School complex are situated within the Serima Communal Lands, south of...

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Building

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Masvingo

The British South Africa Company

IntroductionThis article explores the preliminary manoeuvres prior to the formation of the British...

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Historic

Province:

Harare

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.