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. 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 chapters on the Garden Route and Mpumalanga for the 2022 and 2025 editions of Fodor's Essential South Africa. She was lead writer for the first 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
Ballooning in Cappadoccia 2025
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