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

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Mumurgwe Hill, or Lion’s Head

On the southernmost boulder are four fish and a kudu cow in yellow, whose lower legs were once...

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Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Administration and Government 1889 – 1953

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

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

David Tyrie Laing and the near-disaster Matobo Hills engagement in the 1896 Matabele Uprising or Umvukela

The accounts below are based primarily on David Tyrie Laing's book The Matabele Rebellion...

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Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Zimbabwe timeline

Zimbabwe timeline Pre 200 ADZimbabwe is populated by groups of San hunter-gatherers...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The importance of the Ancestors and the installation of a Chief

By Mlambo Manyezu MathiasThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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.