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Tuscany and Umbria May 2014

  • May 27, 2014 | Kate Turkington | Category: Travel

What can I say about Florence that hasn’t been said by countless others over many centuries?
Above all, it is the golden colours of the ancient buildings – merchants’ tower houses, castles, churches, spires, domes, walls that glow in my memory – tones of warm ochres,  buttery yellows and deep creams.

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Malawi

  • May 15, 2014 | Kate Turkington | Category: Travel

It’s not often you forget where you ate your first – and last – roast dormouse. Mine was at a roadside stall in Malawi where I washed the mouse down with a beer called Kuche Kuche which means ‘until dawn’. (If you nibble a scrunchy bit quickly and wash it down even more quickly, you can even persuade yourself that it’s almost palatable, especially as it is delightfully presented, along with the rest of its late family, kebab-style on a peeled stick by a smiling, expectant Malawian.)

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Hippos in the Karoo

  • May 11, 2014 | Kate Turkington | Category: Radio, Travel

Mashatu, Botswana’s Tuli Block

  • April 13, 2014 | Kate Turkington

When visitors think Botswana, it’s often of the `Okavango Delta, or the Kalahari Desert. But there’s another corner of Botswana that is well worth visiting…

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MARCH 2014

  • March 28, 2014 | Kate Turkington

It’s been a hectic month where I covered nearly 3 000 km by road.

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Frogging and frogging safaris

  • February 04, 2014 | Kate Turkington | Category: Travel

Fancy gumboot dancing with a difference? Try a frogging safari and help save our planet.

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Brookdale Health Hydro

  • January 26, 2014 | Kate Turkington

The roads best travelled in Kruger National Park

  • December 28, 2013 | Kate Turkington | Category: Travel

The Okavango Delta − one of my favourite places on earth

  • December 01, 2013 | Kate Turkington | Category: Travel

The Okavango Delta is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth but it is like no other because it is a water wonderland of quiet lily-studded lagoons, papyrus-fringed channels, secret waterways where one of the world’s rarest antelopes − the aquatic sitatunga hides − forested islands and tall palms. Expect game galore and hundreds of waterbirds, including the rare and sought-after Pel’s fishing owl.

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Back to the Eastern Cape…

  • November 10, 2013 | Kate Turkington | Category: Travel

About

Kate Turkington is one of South Africa’s best-known broadcasters, travellers and travel writers. From Tibet to Thailand, Patagonia to Peru, Kashmir to Kathmandu, St Helena to St Albans, the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, like Shakespeare’s Puck she has girdled the world. She continues to travel when and where she can but Johannesburg is home where she writes and blogs in print and on social media.

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