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
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
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
Brain waves steer wheelchair
Posted by Jason | Filed under News
Tokyo – Toyota Motor Corp says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analysing brain waves, it said [...]
Tags: electrically powered wheelchair, wheelchair
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
Autumn newsletter – May 2008
Posted by Carey | Filed under Newsletters
Driving along the Route 62 recently, commonly known as R62,(the longest wine route in the world) with almost wintery weather – cool with showers, all I thought about was – WOW – it is going to be a magic Spring if this rain continues through the season like this. Generally our area of South Africa [...]
Tags: abseiling, adapted vehicle hire, adapted vehicles, adventures, bungi jumping, Cape Town, crocodile cage diving, custom tours, deep sea fishing, Flamingo Tours, Garden Route, helicopter flights, Indaba Trade Show, newsletter, Pam Taylor, SANParks, sea kayaking, shark cage diving, tandem paragliding, Tree Top Canopy tour, West Coast National Park, whale watching, wheelchair
