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

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Inanke Cave

This well-lit cave is situated high up on the steep granite slopes of Inanke Mountain with broad...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Rhodes first journey into Mashonaland in 1891 through Penhalonga

Rhodes travelled through Penhalonga on his second trip to what would become Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

The British South Africa Company and the impact of early gold mining regulations on smallworkers

In most parts of Southern Africa the landowner had the sole right to prospect on their farm, but...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

The Beira and Mashonaland Railway – the Contractor’s stories

The railway was an important element of the country’s development and many excellent articles...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Was Archibald Ross Colquhoun; first Administrator of Mashonaland 1890 – 92, a failure or was he actively undermined by Dr Jameson?

In his article ‘Colquhoun in Mashonaland: A Portrait of Failure’ in Rhodesiana...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Chirinda Forest and the Big Tree

Local communities call this patch of forest Tshirinda or 'Refuge', and within its embrace...

Category:

Scenic

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.