Travel Writer
En route to Everest Base Camp in Tibet
With my guards in the Ethiopian Rift Valley
Walvis Bay, Namibia
Kate Turkington, an inveterate and intrepid traveller, writes for South African and international travel publications including – among many others – Africa Geographic, City Press, and Conde Nast in New York. She has contributed the chapters on Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland to Fodor’s Southern Africa, editions 2, 3, 4 & 5 and the chapter on the Garden Route for the 2022 edition. She was lead writer in Fodor's Complete Safari Companion published in August 2008, updated to its 3rd edition in 2013 and is also the author of the Mozambique and Maldives entries on the website of Fodors.com.
The Namib desert, the oldest desert in the world
She travels whenever she can and has done live radio crossings from all over the world – Halong Bay, Machu Pichu, the Rift Valley, Disneyland, Paris , Havana, and – once, memorably – from Antarctica.
The icefields of Patagonia