A versatile writer, web producer, guidebook author, editor and social media maven, Kim is available for assignments.
Writing Specialties
- Travel – specialising in Australia and Southern and Eastern Africa
- Restaurant, bar and hotel reviews
- Backpacking and independent travel
- Spas and resorts
- History and culture
- Nature, adventure, and outdoors
- Shopping
Samples of Published Articles
USA: Finding yourself in the great south-west
Road trips don't come any more vivid or memorable than a journey through the USA's most seminal desert landscape, as Kim Wildman discovers."Dead end. GPSs are wrong!" blares the giant billboard in the front of our rental car. "I told you the GPS was leading us in the wrong direction," I snap at my parents, impatiently brandishing the road map I'd picked up at the airport. The last time I remember going on vacation with my parents was when I was ten years old, packed into the back of the Holden station wagon along with my three siblings for a road-trip down the Pacific Highway to see our relatives in Melbourne. Fast forward some thirty years and here I am in the back of a rental car an hour outside Albuquerque, USA, wondering 'what am I doing?' Read More...
Romania: High stakes adventures
Fuelled by Dracula stories and plum brandy, Kim Wildman lets her imagination run wild in Transylvania. A biting breeze sends a chill up my spine as I leave the train in Brasov, a medieval fortress city in the heart of Transylvania, Romania. Transylvania is renowned as the setting of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic novel, Dracula based loosely on Vlad Tepes, the revered prince from the Middle Ages who impaled his foes on stakes and I'm here to sink my teeth into the legend of Count Dracula. It's a cliche, I know, but I'm a sucker for a good vampire story. I've watched every episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and I'm smitten with Robert Pattinson's brooding Edward in Twilight. Read More...
Monument Valley: Scenes from central casting
Primed by a lifetime of watching John Ford's westerns, Kim Wildman rides into the sunset of Monument Valley.I have a confession. I love westerns. From the age of three I would sneak out of bed, well after lights-out, to join my father in front of the latest shoot-'em-up cowboy movie. The gunslinging heroics of John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood weren't the most appropriate viewing for his youngest daughter but I was fascinated by the seemingly simple storylines where the good guys - those usually wearing the white hats - always won. Besides, I felt safe by my father's side. Read More...
Libya: Tears in Tobruk
Travelling to Tobruk in Colonel Gadaffi's Libya may not be high on everyone's to-do-list, but as Kim Wildman reveals, it is a pilgrimage all Australians should take.It's just gone 5am on Anzac Day morning and I'm sitting in a car a million miles from home, lost somewhere in dark streets on the outskirts of Tobruk, Libya. My driver, David, is knocking on the door of a nearby house that stands sentry in the flat, desolate landscape. Despite the inviting glow of an outside light, the house's occupants cannot be woken from their slumber and David returns defeated. Looking down at the folded piece of paper in my hand, my heart sinks and my eyes begin to well. "Please let us find it in time" I silently pray. David's sister, Fatma, my guide and translator who is sitting in the front passenger seat, turns to me and seeing my despair reassures, "Don't worry, we'll find the cemetery." Read More...
