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Frans du Toit, Tourist Guide and Operator, Conservationist and Trails Ranger, was born and brought up in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. His surname reflects the arrival in the Cape of the Huguenot refugees assisted by the Dutch East India Company in 1688, from whence his forefathers probably joined the historic Great Trek from 1834 onwards.

As an Afrikaner, speaking Afrikaans (a South African form of Dutch, combined with German, French and English) as his mother tongue, but also excellent English, Frans nurtured a childhood ambition to become a Game Ranger, leading to his decision to study Nature Conservation Management.. In the course of his exposure to rural, tribal and wildlife areas, Frans learned to speak several indigenous languages, Northern Sotho, Shangaan and Zulu – all of which are now amongst South Africa's official languages.

During his studies, Frans was engaged in research work in both the Mountain Zebra National Park and Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape, as well as in the Hluhluwe Umfolozi Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal. Frans' career with National Parks Board began in 1983, when he was appointed Trails Ranger on the Nyala and Wolhuter Walking Trails in the Kruger National Park, where he accomplished over 25 000 km on foot in the African wilderness!

In 2001, Frans' field guiding career took on a new dimension with the rise in popularity of open game-viewing vehicle safaris in the Kruger National Park and in 2003 he qualified with the South African Tourism Authorities as a registered National Tourist Guide for all provinces. Furthermore, Frans' acquired command of German also enables him to interpret the bush adequately to this market sector.