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

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Zombepata

Amongst the more conventional paintings of animals at Zombepata are numerous images of zebra...

Category:

Scenic, Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Quentin Barnett’s childhood memories of life at Widgeon Ranch, Felixburg, Rhodesia 1956-1971

My Grandfather, Thomas Wilkie Barnett, died on Alanberry Farm (neighbouring Widgeon Ranch) in March...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Rebellion days in Bulawayo: When the Matabele rose in 1896

This short article, chiefly useful for the photographs, appeared in the publication of the...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Nswatugi Cave - rock art paintings

The name Nswatugi is from the Karanga word 'svetuka' meaning “the place of...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

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

Rhodes Nyanga Historical Exhibition

The Museum building itself, now known as Rhodes’ stables was built by a stonemason, R. Marks...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.