Ypie Kingma was born and bred in The Netherlands.After graduating in International Business she lived, worked, and played in Moscow, Russia for six years.When the financial crisis hit the country in 1998 she and her husband Erik relocated to Amsterdam for a short while before going on a new adventure to South Africa. They ran a very successful guesthouse in Knysna, at 'the bottom of Africa' where they since then started an inbound tour company specializing in tailor-made individual or group (golf) tours, which can be self-drive or chauffeur-driven to the whole of South(ern) Africa, including accommodation, tee-off times, sightseeing, car rental, etc.