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I\u2019m a freelance travel writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker from Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been travelling for a living for the last eight years \u2013 for four of them I worked at\u00a0Getaway\u00a0<\/em>magazine as a photojournalist and web editor before I went solo.\u00a0My travel stories, which range from narratives and guides to photo essays and philosophical pieces, have\u00a0been published in magazines and newspapers around the world.<\/p>\n

In the name of work I’ve climbed glaciers in Patagonia<\/a>, eaten my way through India in search of the best curry, hot air ballooned in Turkey<\/a>, learned how to tango in Buenos Aires, road tripped across the USA<\/a>, tried my hand at ice curling in Switzerland<\/a>, partied at Burning Man<\/a>, skied the Italian alps and zip lined through a misty cloud forest in Costa Rica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I worked at Getaway<\/em> I travelled almost exclusively in Africa, where my assignments took me on some amazing adventures, from safaris in South Africa, Zambia, Kenya<\/a> and Namibia, hiking to an active volcano on Reunion island, tracking mountain gorillas in Rwanda and Uganda<\/a> and overlanding from Johannesburg\u00a0to Malawi in a Mini to sleeping under the starts in the Namib Desert, beach hopping in Mozambique and finding the best street food in Mauritius.<\/p>\n

In 2014 I packed up my life in Cape Town and travelled around the world for 500 days, exploring the USA, South and Central America, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n

In 2016 I studied an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking at University College London, shooting my graduation film on a wildlife hunting ranch run by a community of former hunter gatherer people in South Africa. Since then I\u2019ve been working on several short film projects.<\/p>\n

On this blog I share the stories and photos of my travels. I don’t do a lot of how-to guides or bucket lists – there’s more than enough of that around – instead I just write about places that I’ve loved the most.<\/p>\n

If you want to see some of my work, here’s a selection of my published stories<\/a> and my photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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