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

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Thomas Baines’ disastrous 1858-9 Zambezi Expedition with David Livingstone

The Zambezi expedition There is no consistency in the Victorian descriptions of the 1858-9 Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Were Lobengula and the amaNdebele tricked by the Rudd concession?

Many concession-seekers had petitioned Mzilikazi and Lobengula over the years for the right to mine...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Figtree, or Fort Molyneaux and the 1896 Matabele Rebellion or Umvukela

GPS 20°22'27.70"S 28°19'22.24"E Altitude 1,382 metres (4,560...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Antonio Fernandes, probably the first European traveller to Zimbabwe in 1511 - 12

His life as we know it is summed up by Hugh Tracey in his Rhodesiana article: “Brought to...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

O.C. Rawson (1874 – 1953) of Darwendale

The following story of Otto Christian Rawson[i] ‘O.C.'s’ early life in Darwendale...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

Nurses Memorial

What follows is a shortened description of the journey from Beira to Penhalonga in 1891 by Rosanna...

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.