Travel blogs, filled with personal experience and beautiful pictures, are a great source of information for people with itchy feet. Journalist Kate Els, who writes the blog IndiKate, spends her free time figuring out which country is next on her bucket list and shows you how to do the same easily, safely and adventurously.A bit about your background.I'm a journalist who fell into the travel sector. A two-year stint as content editor at South African Tourism saw me travelling the country, but I opted to work as a freelance journalist so I could travel further than the borders of our country.Always been a big traveller?My folks instilled in me a desire to explore and we spent many weekends away in the Drakensberg or the Eastern Free State. We did lots of road trips when I was young and the sense of adventure has never left me.Why did you get into travel blogging?I've travelled a lot for work and collected so many stories that I either couldn't sell or that were too personal to publish elsewhere.Most memorable trip?I travelled to New York with three of my best friends. We stayed in the tiniest AirBnb apartment. Four girls in the Big Apple is cliche when you think of a certain TV series, but it was the holiday I'll never forget.What are the elements that make a trip great?The combination of seeing the sights, but also experiencing what a destination is like for locals. I try to find a local journalist or photographer who can show me the place as a resident would see it.Favourite travel blogs?The Good Holiday, 2Summers, Miss Moss and Rupert Approves. International travel blogs provide me with inspiration on how to make my own more engaging - I follow Adventurous Kate, Alex in Wanderland and Minority Nomad.Do you use blogs to plan trips and get travel information?Always - to get a feel of what major tourist attractions are really like and which may be worth a skip, as well as details on which restaurants to try, what local delicacies not to miss and which bars have the best party. It's also a great way to find alternative spots for photography...