The malaria-free Madikwe Game Reserve is located on South Africa's northern border with Botswana, in a semi-arid area characterised by red sands, open grasslands and sparse bushveld.

Kate Turkington has been visiting this world-famous lodge in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province for over three decades.

Off the northwest coast of the world’s fourth-largest island, and certainly one of its most mysterious and diverse, lies the island of Nosy Be (pronounced “bay”). I knew a little about Madagascar before I visited because I’d watched lemurs and marvelled at giant baobab trees on the National Geographic channel, but the reality is breathtaking.