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
More Wonderful Safari’s Done!
Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles
I am back from a further two “safari’s” at Shamwari Private Game Reserve in the Malaria-Free Eastern Cape. Again the BIG 5 and more were seen. With all the wonderful food, I think I am also heavier! Even though I watched what I ate the food is excellent! They even made me special wheat =free [...]
Tags: Big 5, buffalo, Cango Wildlife Ranch, cheetah, Eastern Cape, elephant, Flamingo Tours, Game, leopard, Lion, malaria free, malaria free game viewing, Meet the People, Meet the People tour, Mossel Bay, newsletter, Pam Taylor, personal service, rhino, safari, Shamwari, Shamwari Private game reserve, South Africa, special service, spring flowers, tenikwa, West Coast
Best “Safari” in 28 years of visiting Africa
Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles
I have just returned from a tour of 13 days, of which 7 days was a game viewing “safari” in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, at Addo National Elephant Park and Shamwari private game reserve, with 4 people, of whom one young man of 22 was a wheelchair user. We set off from Cape Town through to the [...]
Tags: Addo Elephant Park, Africa, black rhino, Cape Town, cape vulture, cheetah, cubs, endangered, Flamingo Tours, game drive, game viewing, Garden Route, Knysna, lioness, Lions, malaria free, ostrich, Oudtshoorn, Outeniqua, Pam Taylor, safari, Shamwari Private game reserve, South Africa, Spekboom, Sub-Saharan Africa, wheelchair, white lions, white rhino, white tigers
“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
Winter in Cape Town – A Mix of All Seasons
Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles
Winter in Cape Town is a real mix of all seasons. Over the past few weeks we have had the old – Cape of Storms – the Mother City showing her ferocity, this week, now that the British & Irish Lions Rugby fans are leaving, she is all sugar and sweetness with beautiful 22°c bathing [...]
Tags: boulders beach penguins, British, cable car, canada, cape of good hope reserve, cape of storms, Cape peninsula, cape point, Cape Town, chacma babboons, Flamingo Tours, Irish, kirstenbosch botanical gardens, mother city, Pam Taylor, proteas, seasons, table mountain, two oceans restaurant, weather
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
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
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
Summer newsletter – February 2009
Posted by Jason | Filed under Newsletters
SUMMER NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2009 How time flies, I can hardly believe the end of February is upon us – so soon. I have hardly got over the Festive Season. The weather here is hot,33°C yesterday, but the downside is that the Western Cape, being a winter rainfall area is experiencing bush fires everywhere and [...]
Tags: Cape Town, custom tours, Flamingo Tours, newsletter, Pam Taylor, private tours, soccer world cup, South Africa
Economic Downturn
Posted by Jason | Filed under Articles
During this world recession, how can we think out of the box? As everyone is in the same box, we need to be ahead of the pack and therefore, being pioneers in our field in South Africa, just gone 14 years in business, we have always strived to do things differently and have our customer [...]
Tags: Cape Town, custom tours, Pam Taylor, private tours, South Africa
