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

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Mucheka Cave

(1) Outside the cave two hunters carry a pole whilst two others engage in a stylised fight which...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

Rhodes Stables

These fine late Victorian Stables are on the west boundary of Rhodes Estate Preparatory School, now...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Cecil Kop Nature Reserve

Cecil Kop Nature Reserve is located just two kilometres from the city centre and is managed and...

Category:

Scenic, Game Park

Province:

Manicaland

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

In Mashonaland the Uprising / First Chimurenga which broke out in June some three months...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Three oral history statements made in 1937 by amaNdebele warriors present at the killing of Allan Wilson and thirty-three other Europeans on 4 December 1893 at the Shangani River

Three oral history statements were made in 1937 by amaNdebele warriors present at the killing of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Why did Portugal establish bases on the East African Coast, now Mozambique in the early sixteenth Century?

IntroductionA number of historical articles on the Portuguese in Mozambique have been written in...

Category:

Historic

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.