Originally from London, Lizzie has worked and lived in Africa for 14 years. Starting out on trips across the continent as a tour leader on overland trucks, she has sat with a gorilla, slept amongst elephants, fed a giraffe and swum with a hippo and is now something of an expert on border crossings and African beer. For Footprint she is author of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Tanzania; has written the only country guide to Nigeria and the first city guide to Johannesburg for Bradt; is author of the AA Spiral Guide to South Africa and Africa Overland, a glossy look at the overland route from Nairobi to Cape Town, is co-author of the DK Eyewitness to Kenya, and has contributed to Turkey and Egypt for Rough Guides. She has written various online African destination guides for leading websites in the UK and US including Frommers, British Airways and World Travel Guide.net. When not on the road, Lizzie lives in Cape Town.

(1)Planning your trip (2) Essentials (3) Capetown and the Winelands - Cape Town, The Cape Peninsula, The Winelands (4) Western Cape - West Coast, The N7 to the Northern Cape, Breede River Valley, Overberg and the Whale Coast, Overberg interior, Great Karoo, Little Karoo (5) Garden Route (6) Eastern Cape - Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth), West of Nelson Mandela Bay, Nelson Mandela Bay to East London, Eastern Cape Karoo, Cape Midlands and East London, Wild Coast (7) KwaZulu Natal - Durban, KwaZulu Natal Coast, Pietermaritzburg and the Natal Midlands, Battlefields Route, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, Zululand, Maputaland (8) Gauteng - Johannesburg, Tshwane (Pretoria) (9) Mpumalanga - Nelspruit and around, Kruger National Park, Panorama region (10) Limpopo - Up the Great North Road, East of the Great North Road (11) North West Province - Western Region, Eastern region; (12) Free State - Bloemfontein, Eastern Highlands (13) Northern Cape - Kimberley, The Kalahari, West towards Namakwa and Springbok (14) Lesotho - Maseru, Maseru to semonkong, North from Maseru, Central Mountains, South from Maseru (15) Swaziland - Mbabane and around, Central and southern Swaziland, Northern districts (16) Background - History, Modern South Africa, Culture, Land and environment (17) Footnotes