Disability Tourism and travel in Africa.

[Claude Edmond]

Disability Tourism and travel in Africa.

Travel and tourism is a social right which concerns every human being . However, it is estimated that over 500 million disabled people in the world do not take holidays. For those with some form of disability, many of the existing tourism offers are not easily accessible.

Demand for accessible tourism offers is growing, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize that tourists with disabilities form an important consumer group.

Claudious Tours and safaris have recognized that disability is not inability to travel. Demand for accessible tourism offers is growing, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize that tourists with disabilities form an important consumer group of travelers. Claudious Tours and Safaris specializes in arranging tours for the physically impaired, blind and the deaf in the community. We work with a wide range of safari lodges, tented camps, hotels and beach resorts to make sure that we can give you the most accessible quality accommodation available. We avail the use of professional nurses during the escorted tours of the game parks, boating on Lake Victoria, Birding, cultural tours etc.

Claudious Tours and Safaris specializes in arranging tours for the physically impaired, blind and the deaf in the community. We know wheelchair travel and we know it first hand. We will assist you in planning your own tour package! Just let us know where and when you would like to travel and we would be happy to assist you in planning a wonderful vacation for yourself as an individual or as a group!

Getting Around, Tracking wildlife in Africa is an incredible experience for anyone, and mobility issues need not be a bar to this unforgettable adventure. For anyone with mobility disabilities, we provide vehicles with easy access ramps. Our experienced driver/guides are always there to assist you.

We personally visit, check and approve accommodation to make sure that there is wheelchair access to all rooms, restaurants, common areas, game viewing platforms and beaches. We also ensure that rooms and even safari tents have individual access, accessible verandahs or decks, and accessible and functional en suite facilities for the disabled.

A safari in Africa is both internal and external and one that overcomes the inherent disability in the person. More importantly, life takes on a new meaning, and the safari itself gives pride in accomplishment, and encourages you to take on new adventures and challenges, thus, helping to overcome fear. Claudious Tours and Safaris have successfully handled adventures for wheelchair travelers, small groups and slow walkers. Our personally escorted tours reflect a particular fondness for continued learning and cultural intrigue. Our experience and commitment to specialty travel allows us to design travel programs that harmonize unique needs and individual capabilities. Choose any tour from the special interest or adventure tours offered, and this will be designed to suit your pace, special medical needs and care. Be it a trek to the Source of the River Nile, or an overland Maasai Mara safari, Claudious Tours and Safaris caters to special needs for people with special disabilities.

Wheelchair Users and Slow Walkers - safaris and tours
We are familiar with the needs of varying mobility impairments and we will do everything possible to accommodate your particular needs. Wheelchair travel and tours in the wildlife sanctuaries, sports events, Eco-tours and at the Kenya coast beaches have been our favorable itineraries. These included mature travelers, slow walkers, wheelchair travelers, their families and their friends.

Claudious Tours and Safaris  Disability Travel Resources include;
Disability Tour Planning, Individual wheelchair and family Tours, Disability Educational Tours, Corporate individual disability Tours, Old women and men physically impaired tours of Maasai Mara Migration and Disability hotel bookings in Kenya.

The blind - tours and safaris
We encourage that they come along with their close family members and for the married, their spouses on our tours. These can help in explaining for them the sceneries and offer comfort. Blind Students should be accompanied by their tutors.

The deaf - tours and safaris
The Deaf can be provided with the translators during escorted tours both in the wilderness, Kenya coast and on Lake Victoria waters. Claudious Tours and Safaris provide around the clock escorts to help with life's little problems.

Disability Tours and safaris in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
We can assist you in planning your own tour package! Just let us know where and when you would like to travel and we would be happy to assist you in planning a wonderful vacation for yourself as an individual or as a group!

Please note that these tours are usually tailor-made two months before the tour departure date. This gives us time to adjust our accommodation facilities to favor the nature of our client's disability which include the adjustment of the tour van seats and sitting arrangements, bookings in suitable hotels and lodges, allocation of suitable staff to handle the clients' needs such as the hiring of the wheel chairs, escorting personnel, nursing staff and sign language guides.

7 Days - 6 Nights-Kenya Game viewing and Beach Holiday tailored for Wheelchair Users
This is a seven days safari starting from Nairobi to Mombasa and ending in Mombasa or in Nairobi as per the clients’ wishes and flight schedules. You will start with visiting the Amboseli National park where you will be accommodated in a wheelchair friendly lodge; Sopa lodge and proceed to Tsavo East where you will stay at Voi Wildlife Safari lodge before you head to Mombasa for your beach holiday at the Sun N sand Hotel or if you wish proceed to Watamu in Malindi to stay at Turtle bay Beach club.

Day 1: Arrival - Nairobi
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by out tour manager who will brief you on your safari before you are transferred to Amboseli National Park. On arrival, embark on an en route game viewing drive to Amboseli Sopa Lodge for lunch. After lunch, have the afternoon at leisure. Dinner and Overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

Day 2: Amboseli Full Day
After breakfast, enjoy a full day game viewing in this wonderful National Park.

Amboseli is renowned for its huge elephant herds. Africa’s highest Mountain – Mt Kilimanjaro sits on the upper slopes of Amboseli National park. Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snow white peak lies across the border in Tanzania. Seeing the Kilimanjaro hovering above the clouds in the early hours of the morning is quite an experience. For the enthusiastic photographer, animal pictures arising against the dramatic backdrop of the mountain is quite a thrill. Apart from the Elephants, Amboseli is a home to; buffalos, black rhinos, zebras, wildebeest and other plain animals.

Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

Day 3: Amboseli - Tsavo East
After breakfast, enjoy a morning game viewing drive if you still want some more before you depart for Tsavo East, approximately 200kms. Check in at the Voi safari lodge for lunch.

Voi Safari Lodge: During the dry season the waterholes are the convergence of a lot of wild animals moving almost in a trance as if urged on by some kind of telepathic communication, the sight is just fantastic. Dinner and overnight at Voi Wildlife Safari Lodge.

Day 4: Tsavo East - Mombasa
Enjoy morning breakfast before you depart to Mombasa which is 165kms away to arrive at Sun N Sand. If you choose to proceed to Watamu, Then we will proceed to Turtle bay Beach club which is 100 kilometres away, both of the hotels are wheelchair friendly.

Tsavo East / Tsavo West: Both national parks are managed separately but together they form the largest reserve in East Africa. The northern part of Tsavo east may not however be visited by tourists. Nevertheless the Tsavo national park founded in 1947 is one of the most visited tourist attraction in Kenya. In spite of its arid countryside and savannah vegetation about 60species of mammals and 400 different species of birds are to be found here. The Tsavo is particularly famous because of its dramatic scenery and the “Red Elephants” which owe their colours to the dust prevalent in this area as well as lions and cheetahs. There are many antelopes (Oryx, kudus, giants gazelles and giraffe) Burchell’s zebras, Maasai giraffes baboons and vervet monkeys of the birds the most impressive is the Maasai ostrich. Where there is water such as at Mzima springs, crocodiles and hippos can also be seen.

Dinner and overnight at Sun N Sand Beach resort / Turtle bay Beach Club.

Day 5 and 6: Mombasa / Malindi
Full day will be spent at leisure. You can engage in extra activities arranged and payable direct to the hotel.

Day 7: Mombasa - Nairobi
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Airport well in time for your onward flight to Nairobi to connect to your flight back home. Or if you are to exit from Mombasa’s Moi International Airport, you will be at liberty.

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Cost In US$ 2800 per person sharing.
Claudious Tours and safaris will make this safari a memorable adventure for you.
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