How the differences between them will impact your trip. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. New Zealand is high on many people’s bucketlists — not only because it’s a wonderful country, but also because it’s such a difficult country to get to. Wherever you are travelling from, New Zealand is on the edge of…

Walk with rhinos, canoe with hippos, go rafting… — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. The thunder of Victoria Falls can be heard continuously from as far as 20 kilometres away. It’s the sound that is so impressive, and that puts this waterfall above any other I’ve witnessed — maybe, above any other waterfall…

How I set off on a life-changing trip. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. I often talk about destinations as if it were easy and comfortable to travel to offbeat places. Yet of course it’s not always like that. So, in order to balance things out, I’ll share my first travel experience here. …

Discover a city where architecture is history. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. We are in Spain, in Spring, in the city of Salamanca. It is an ancient city, carved from golden stone. …

Enjoy peace and solitude on board a traditional sailboat. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. Halong Bay is in the northeast of Vietnam. It’s one of the seven natural wonders of the world — or so it was recently voted. It’s around two and a half hours by road from Hanoi to the harbour…

Enjoy 2,500 kilometres of little-visited Indian Ocean beaches. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. I’m sure you know of a few destinations in the Indian Ocean — the Maldives and the Seychelles, probably. What about Mozambique? Mozambique has 2,500 kilometres of unblemished, almost entirely undeveloped Indian Ocean coastline. And that’s on top of…

Experience-based advice on when and where to go. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. I’d like to dispel some of the myths and stereotypes about the great wildebeest migration — and to tell you when to go and where to stay to witness this unique wildlife event. I’m very fortunate in that I…

Instead, here are thirty authentic ways for you to experience France. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. I always seem to remember France by smells. A pâtisserie. A boulangerie. The scent of flowering fields. The smell of the cities when you get into areas where graffiti meets 19th-century ornate bliss. The briny whiff of the sea…

Where the jungle meets the Caribbean. — Listen to this and other stories on the Kated Travel Podcast. Tortuguero National Park is on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. In case you don’t speak Spanish, tortuga is the Spanish word for turtle — and tortuguero means dwelling of turtles. Yes, this is Turtledwelling National Park. Tortuguero is…