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

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Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Natural Site

The top ten World sites include three from Africa; Victoria Falls, the great Rift Valley in Kenya...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park, Cultural, Geological

Province:

Matabeleland North

The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.

The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.Like Antonio Fernandes, Silveira was one of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Victoria Falls Zambesi River sketched on the spot by Thomas Baines F.R.G.S.

Publishers Introduction In this facsimile book, probably the finest edition produced by Books...

Category:

Scenic

Province:

Matabeleland North

A look at present-day Marula, between Bulawayo and Plumtree

Marula owes its existence to the railway line. Early locomotives were steam powered and coal...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Pieter Lourens van der Byl’s grave at Mona Farm

The van der Byl trek of 1891 was sponsored as part of the policy to unite Boers and British in the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Administration and Government 1889 – 1953

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

Category:

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.