UNESCO World Heritage for Zimbabwe

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 5 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Zimbabwe to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Zimbabwe for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Zimbabwe below.


1984 - Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
1986 - Khami Ruins National Monument
1986 - Great Zimbabwe National Monument
1989 - Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls
2003 - Matobo Hills


Great Zimbabwe National Monument

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls

Matobo Hills

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Zimbabwe are shown below - click on the links for more details.


Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

2008 - Mbende Jerusarema dance