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Jacques du Toit

Owner/Tour Guide

Jacques’s passion for travel, coupled with his love for people and animals, landed him his dream job twelve years ago when he began his career as a Tour guide. Since then, all who travel with him have been the happy beneficiaries of the cheerful travel-induced lust for life that drives him.

A self-confessed tree hugger, birder, history buff and all-round oddball bohemian, Jacques takes his joy in life from sharing his passion with his tourists and friends.

He makes his home in the Mother City – Cape Town – but he is just as comfy in a hut in Zambia, snorkeling in Mozambique or just kickin’ it with the locals from Namibia to Botswana, Zimbabwe to Lesotho or hanging with his awesome Swazi friends in the kingdom of Eswatini.

Jacques speaks Afrikaans and English and is fast becoming fluent in German.

Tim Sheldon

Transportation

Tim, who is affectionately known as Dr. Iver, began his driving career in 1983, in Cape Town, where he was responsible for transporting the precious cargo in local school buses.

However, in 2000 the tourism bug bit and he has been a stalwart of South African tour operators ever since.

Tim knows Southern Africa like the back of his hand; he has taken tourists to Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and even as far north as Angola.

He loves animals and is also a keen photographer.

Paul Lefko

Photographer

Paul Lefko is a 30 plus year photographer that is based out of Los Angeles California that has been involved in the entertainment industry for many years.  Currently he is involved with commercial portraits along with photo documentary and travel photography. Paul’s work has been recognized by his peers and has won 10 regional photographic awards for his work. His celebrity work has also been published around the world in the form of album covers to newspaper stories.  Paul is available for your commercial, portrait, travel and documentary work and you can see more his images at his website www.fhutowurks.com and on Instagram at Paul’s Instagram Page

Chris Kruger

Tour Guide

Chris Kruger has been a guide for the last 26 years. His sense of adventure, passion for travelling and the outdoors was ignited at a young age and extended into a career as a fulltime safari and tour guide. Chris has made hundreds of journeys to the many wildlife destinations that are found in the Southern African region but his speciality is the famous Kruger National Park where he has spent many happy hours. He is known to go out of his way to enhance any tourist’s journey using his extensive knowledge and experience of the African landscape, politics, cultures, and animal behaviour. Chris is a keen birder and is a member of Birdlife South Africa. His other interests are mountain biking, wildlife photography and he is a big sports fan. He is married, fluent in Afrikaans and English and is based in the lovely seaside town of Mossel Bay on South Africa’s Garden Route.

Johan Noppe

Tour Guide

“Aangenamekennis” is the Afrikaans way of saying “pleased to meet you”, and of course we are! My name is Johan Noppe, I believe I am already 12-14 Generations in Southern Africa. I was born 1974-12-01 in Zimbabwe(Then Rhodesia) and moved with his parents to South Africa in 1981. As youngster I loved the outdoors and farm life. I always dreamed to have my own farm one day. As I grew older my interest for wildlife grew and I had since junior (Primary) school learnt about animals and birds. When I finished his school I went on to serve 1 year “compulsory”(I actually volunteered) military service. Then entered into University Pretoria for BA Physical training, because my sport for 17yrs was Judo. This was not for me I realised. I learned about tourism at a part time job where I was working for a few years, as fitness instructor at a health club. I decided as a means to get to go on safaris and still have the balance of city life with family I enrolled for a 3 years Tourism and travel practice coarse with Vaal Triangle Technicon. I started working for Guesthouses and doing Shuttle services for guesthouses and got an opportunity to work for Wilro Tours. Within a few months I qualified a tour guide for Gauteng Province. I then pursued a dream to travel abroad on Working holiday Visa in the UK and manage to save money and travel. After 2 years I was back got married and had to re-qualify as tour-guide due to changes in the legislation. Today I am a National Tour guide for 9 provinces in South Africa and have been working for variety of Operators serving their guest to the best of my ability. Have conducted tours throughout South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. I am a father of 2 daughters (14 & 11) and my only problem with my career is that I love it too much. Looking forward to being of Service for you.