EXCITING SAFARI IN MALARIA-FREE AREA

The Rangers said that was a "first" sighting of this kind ever, about three times on this particular game "safari" I just returned from last week. Even they had their cameras out taking photos of these very special events. We were obviously at the right place at the right time in this 5 star Private Game Reserve - in the Malaria-Free Eastern Cape of South Africa. We spent 4 days there with 4 guests, of whom 1 was a wheelchair user. We saw the BIG 5 over 8 game drives in open Landcruisers.

One day the Lioness sent off the arduous male, with roars and grunts and chasing him away, while the cubs looked on and the other female went for a short walk while this "domestic" quarrel went on.

Elephants in a large herd had young bulls play fighting, with trunks and tusks crashing against each other and trumpeting, all in the mix with a White rhino and calf looking on and also doing a charge, as the young playing bulls got too close to her and her calf.

Another pair of Lions chasing a male Cheetah, who had wondered into "their" killing fields and wanted to show was the boss around there - King of the Jungle!

And so it went on, with sightings of White And Black Rhino all in one photo opportunity, a once in a lifetime shot of the camera. I hope to do it all again next week with new guests, who I hope will also say it was the best ever !

Keep reading this blogspot for more of these animal encoutners, come visit and you too can experience this scene. Enjoy. Pam - Flamingo Tours - Cape Town - South Africa.

Recently I had the pleasure of taking some guests who are rugby fans around Cape Town for the Emerging Springboks against the British & Irish Lions tour. Besides freezing our buts at the evening game, we also visited the winelands and the Cape of Good Hope Reserve. At this point - the most South Western point of the African continent it gives the latitude and longitude, it is also surrounded by rock and the path is narrow. My guests - on their honeymoon - Tim & Hannah, decided they had to be the first to be behind the sign in a wheelchair. So Tim "flew" over the rocks with Hannah haning on for dear life in order to achieve this FIRST EVER photo. Well done TIM!

INCLUSIVE TOURISM FOR ALL

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 not have the same impact. About 6 years ago I went and did a sign language course and then a few months later followed that with an advanced course, but my signing still stinks. I think I can manage a meager conversation. My problem is that I know what I want to say more or less, but cannot follow others conversation easily - practice , practice & more practice is required on my part. I tried to sell this concept of tours for guests with hearing impairments about 6 years ago at our largest Trade show in Africa, but no one was interested at all. A friend who is deaf - Pierre - even went to study to become a tour guide so that we could work together and poor guy waited for tours, from other sources as well as myself - nothing - zilch - neto - so what did he do - start a small company for himself- good for him - but sad loss to the guiding fraternity!! PLEASE anyone reading this - if you have friends, clients, guests who want a wonderful tour of this dynamic land of South Africa - contact me - info@flamingotours.co.za and let us put a wonderful tour together for you. Last year I did a tour for guests that were blind and we had a really fantastic time so much so that one of those guests e-mails me daily to just to say Hi and thanks. What a rewarding job I do, I want to show off my country - so come and let me achieve my goal.
Pam Stephens Taylor. Cape Town South Africa. To see more about what I do, go to www.flamingotours.co.za