Kate Pilcher - Founder & guide of Globetrotting - sharing her passion for horses and exploring horse cultures around the world.

<div>Kate Pilcher is the founder & guide of Globetrotting, a worldwide travel agency that specialises in horse riding experiences to all corners of the globe. Kate discovered this form of travel as part of a quarter-life crisis and ran away to Argentina and then Kenya to discover herself from the back of a horse. Now in her forties Kate leads globetrotting rides to some extraordinary places with her three daughters and husband in toe.</div> <div> </div> <div>Kate in her own words:</div> <div> </div> <div>“I started Globetrotting a bit over a decade ago, thanks to a quarter-life crisis. You see, I had turned 25 and went on a 10-day horse riding safari in the Maasai <a href= "https://www.globetrotting.com.au/horse-riding-holidays/maasai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.globetrotting.com.au/horse-riding-holidays/maasai-mara-kenya/&source=gmail&ust=1651459536600000&usg=AOvVaw3JY6dSysd7Yptu0AJxKLU_">Mara, Kenya</a>, where my mind was blown by witnessing the wildebeest migration astride a safari horse. </div> <div> </div> <div>It was THIS crazy, colourful, life-changing experience that led me to step away from my business (Salt magazine), my boyfriend (now husband – thankfully Steven is a very patient man), mortgage and flee to a remote 100,000 acre estancia in Patagonia only accessible via horse.</div> <div> </div> <div>For the next nine months I jumped from saddle to saddle, driven by an unquenchable thirst to explore horse cultures in South America and Africa. When I finally returned home, Globetrotting took form alongside my business at the time, Salt magazine.</div> <div> </div> <div>You see, I fell in love with this form of travel – Globetrotting – where the pace is slower and the experience richer.</div> <div>Rather than travelling in a tour bus (conveyor-belt travel, I like to call it), when you’re astride a horse, you climb under the skin of a country, absorbing every nuance it has to offer.</div> <div> </div> <div>I knew it was the onl