The Zulus call Kingsley "Nondwayisa uya Shinga" - the African Lilly Trotter - a water bird that stalks the rivers of Africa on long legs. Quite an apt name for someone who has become one of Africa's greatest present day explorers

The Zulus call Kingsley "Nondwayisa uya Shinga" - the African Lilly Trotter - a water bird that stalks the rivers of Africa on long legs. Quite an apt name for someone who has become one of Africa's greatest present day explorers. Unlike many of Africa's early explorers who had scant regard for local tribes, etiquette and custom, Kingsley has immersed himself in African cultures especially that of the Zulu. Kingsley is a founder member of Shakaland, South Africa's leading Zulu cultural attraction, a living museum situated in the heart of Zululand. Kingsley has spent much of his life exploring the African Continent in the footsteps of the early explorers. The first of which was an epic journey from Cape to Cairo, in inflatable boats and back-up four wheel drive vehicles, along Africa's major waterways - registered with the Royal Geographical Society as a World First.

Considered a bit of David Livingstone himself Kingsley Holgate the Grey Beard of African Adventure is one of Africa's most colorful Modern day Explorers. Well known on National Geographic Television, Kingsley is also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His adventures many of which are world firsts include his son Ross and wife Gill. As a family they completed a 1993 Cape to Cairo journey in open boats, the Zambezi and Congo Rivers in the footsteps of Livingstone and Stanley and a circumnavigation of Lake Turkana the world's largest desert lake. Following in the footsteps of the early explorers the Holgate family has survived countless attacks of Malaria, the threat of bandits and wild animals, landmines. Called "Extreme Latitude" and travelling on foot, by bicycle, bullock cart, dugout and Land Rover, Kingsley Holgate and his adventurous family have circumnavigated the world by land following the Tropic of Capricorn.