Roxanne Reid

I've walked through the Kalahari with a San tracker, driven along the Roof of Africa in Lesotho, ventured among the wild horses of the Namib and felt the spray of the Victoria Falls on my face. I'm happiest halfway between nowhere and nothing, trying something new or simply watching the grass grow. I'm a book editor and writer but get my best kicks hitting the road with the excuse that I'm researching contributions to magazines like Getaway, Country Life and Wild, or my travel blog.

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Posts by Roxanne Reid

Paradise in the Kalahari: the new Kgalagadi Lodge

3 April 2013 | Roxanne Reid

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Kgalagadi Lodge, a new lodge, has opened just 5km from Twee Rivieren in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It has chalets, camping, pool, restaurant and a shop selling fruit and veg, cold meats, even fresh bread baked on site - previously unheard of luxuries in these parts.

7 things to do in the Tankwa Karoo

22 March 2013 | Roxanne Reid

The Tankwa Karoo National Park is a stark but beautiful part of the country. Here are seven things well worth doing there.

Schizophrenia and contradiction in Livingstone

19 December 2012 | Roxanne Reid

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Africa is bold and it is beautiful. It's also a schizophrenic puzzle of haves and have-nots, as you will discover if you visit Livingstone on the edge of the Victoria Falls in southern Zambia.

Confessions of a Kalahari addict

31 October 2012 | Roxanne Reid

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The Kalahari. It’s vast and ageless, a semi-desert of photogenic red dunes and star-crammed skies where African animals run wild. Visit it once and it may capture your heart forever. That's certainly what happened to me. Now you can read about it in a new book called 'Travels in the Kalahari'.

The Caprivi Strip’s wackiest campsite: Ngepi Camp

26 October 2012 | Roxanne Reid

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Our campsite at Ngepi in the Caprivi looked out over the Kavango River. Peaceful and beautiful, sure, but the place was also deeply idiosyncratic. Some might even say wacko.

12 reasons why Kruger Park’s Tsendze camp is tops

22 August 2012 | Roxanne Reid

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If you’ve never stayed at Tsendze Rustic Campsite in the Kruger National Park, you’ve never experienced how great camping can be. Here's why.

Feel the heartbeat of Africa at The Boma in Victoria Falls

23 April 2012 | Roxanne Reid

Eat, drink and be merry. Enjoy a live show. Take a drumming class and get high on rhythm. These are the ingredients of a fun-filled evening under an African sky at The Boma restaurant in Victoria Falls.

Nieu Bethesda’s Antie Evelyne does lunch

20 March 2012 | Roxanne Reid

The weird and wacky Owl House isn't the only experience Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo has to offer. Enjoy lunch at Antie Evelyne se Eetplek and support community tourism at the same time.

The secret language of Basotho blankets

21 February 2012 | Roxanne Reid

You can’t go far in Lesotho without seeing people wrapped in colourful Basotho blankets, so when someone offers you a peek into their secret language, you don’t refuse.