Disability | Flamingo Adventure Tours

DISABILITY IS NOT INABILITY!

Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles

Who says having a disability makes you unable to do things!! They are totally wrong!! Recently I had a GENTLEMAN on tour, who had the largest and heaviest wheelchair I have ever had to deal with – 300kg = 66Olbs but we did a whole tour – safari and all! Many hours of negotiations went [...]

Tags: accommodation, Adventure, African, attractions, carer, disability, partner, penguin colony, safari, South Africa, tour, wheelchair

Read more | Comments (0) | December 14, 2009

Equinox Newsletter Combining Winter & Spring – September 2009

Posted by Jason | Filed under Newsletters

Hello all my friends, colleagues, guests and family I have combined this newsletter, as time has run away with me, as thankfully I have been busy with tours for the last couple of months. I am truly grateful to those of you who have sent me business in this climate of fiscal fallout. I love [...]

Tags: Barruch, blue crane, cheetah, coffee roastary, disability, face crème, Flamingo Tours, foot balm, Garden Route, Grootbrak, Jackie Viljoen, Janneman, leather handbags, malibu storks, Meet the People, Meet the People tour, Mossel Bay, newsletter, ostrich, Pam Taylor, South Africa, tenikwa, tour guide, tourism, township, township tour, Voorbaai, wheelchair, wheelchairs

Read more | Comments (0) | September 26, 2009

“Meet the People” star – Meets his maker

Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles

It is with great sadness that the STAR of the tour we do in Mossel Bay – “Meet the People” – Pride versus Poverty style township tour – Janneman passed away last month. I was so shocked to hear this as I think he was not much older than me. Janneman was a wheelchair user [...]

Tags: disability, essense of life, Flamingo Tours, Janneman, leather handbags, Meet the People tour, Mossel Bay, Pam Taylor, poverty, self worth, township, township tour, wealth, wheelchair

Read more | Comments (0) | July 17, 2009

Cape of Storms – Rugby in the Rain

Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles

The recent spate of storms that hit Cape Town and the Western Cape have reaked havoc here, but in spite of all that, we still went on tour with guests in wheelchairs in rain, sun and to the rugby! At the rugby match – Emerging Springboks versus the British & Irish Lions, it rained it was [...]

Tags: accessible tours, British, Cape Town, day tours, disability, Flamingo Tours, Irish, Lions, Newlands rugby Museum, Newlands stadium, Pam Taylor, rugby, rugby museum, South Africa, Springboks, storms, weather, wheelchair, wheelchair rugby, wheelchairs

Read more | Comments (0) | June 29, 2009

Flamingo Cares

Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles

From the Indaba News of May 2009 – Flamingo Tours is proud of its commitment to accommodate disabled travelers who have the fullest right to enjoy traveling. Owner Pam Taylor personalised their services around clients; specific needs, offering adapted vehicles to take wheelchairs with equipment approved by British Transport Board. Vehicles include midi coaches for [...]

Tags: accessible accommodation, adapted vehicles, custom tours, deaf, disability, Flamingo Tours, hearing impairments, Pam Taylor, private tours, sign language, signing, South Africa

Read more | Comments (0) | June 20, 2009

Inclusive Tourism for All

Posted by Jason | Filed under Articles

Inclusive Tourism for ALL guests, not only those who have a disability, has been my idea of how I would like to work for some years now, but did not quite have the words – Inclusive – which is now the new watch word. I just had – tourism for all guests – which did [...]

Tags: custom tours, deaf, disability, hearing impairments, Pam Taylor, sign language, signing, South Africa, tour guide, tourism, trade show