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Wheelchair Access, Handicapped, People With disability, Aged and Slow Movers Tours and Safaris in Kenya,East 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. we at victoria safaris have recognized that disability is not inability to tourism.
Demand for accessible tourism offers is growing, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize that tourists with disabilities form an important consumer group. Victoria Safaris specializes in arranging tours for the physically impaired, blind and the deaf in the community. We book our disabled clients in the hotels in kenya which has facilities for the disabled in society. we avail the use of professional nurses during the escorted tours of the game parks, Boating on Lake Victoria, Birding, cultural tours etc. for the physically impaired.
For the blind, 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 can be provided with the translators during escorted tours both in the wild and on water. Please note that these tours are usually tailor made two months before the tour departure date.
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. Victoria 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, Victoria safaris caters to special needs for people with special disabilities.
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. We at Victoria Safaris have recognized that disability is not inability to tourism. As a means of contribution to world tourism, we at Victoria safaris have developed itineraries which favor the disabled in society. The disabled of any nature requires at one particular time in life to be given an opportunity to visit a different environment from the normally inhabited atmosphere. With this in mind, we customize tours for individuals who are disabled in society to visit wildlife game in Maasai Mara, beaches, Lake Victoria and other tourist sites in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
When many of us think of disabilities, the first image that may come to mind is that of someone using a wheelchair. Although an important segment of the disabled population, Individuals who use a wheelchair for mobility represent only one segment of those individuals with disabilities. There are a wide range of disabled individuals who may wish to participate in international programs and tourism.
Below you will find a list of the major types of disabilities;
* Deaf and Hard of Hearing
* Vision Impairments
* Mobility Disabilities
* Psychiatric Disabilities
* Learning Disabilities
* Attention Deficit Disorder
* Systemic Disabilities
* Brain Injuries
Demand for Safaris and Tours
Demand for disability tourism offers is growing, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize that tourists with disabilities form an important consumer group. Victoria 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 book our disabled clients in the hotels in Kenya which have facilities for the disabled in society. We avail the use of professional nurses during the escorted tours of the game parks, boating on Lake Victoria, Birding, cultural tours etc. for the physically impaired.
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.
Victoria Safaris Disability Travel Resources include;
Disability, Handicap, Group Wheelchair Access 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. Victoria safaris provide round the clock escorts to help with life’s little problems.
People with Disability, Handicap, Group Wheelchair Access 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.
Each tour is personalized to suit each guests taking into account their disability, which is why no prices are listed, as each disability is different so each tour cost changes with special requests and the guests “wish list”.
If you are as passionate about travel and feel you can take it on, allow Victoria Safaris to help you explore this world of opportunity and fulfillment.
James Asudi is the CEO of Victoria Safaris, a tour operator company based in Nairobi – Kenya offering Niche safaris,wildlife tours, Mountain Climbing, Beach holidays, Gorilla Tracking, River Nile Water Rafting, Maasai Mara Migration Safaris, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Northern Tanzania Safaris,Lake victoria tours, Kogelo tours and Safaris, Slum tours in kenya,Disability tours in Kenya,Care Hire in kenya, Fishing and boating inside Lake victoria and cultural and community based tours and safaris in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania including pemba and Zanzibar.
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Victoria Safaris is an African tour operator, Luo owned and managed with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. A family member staying in Vancouver Canada manages the branch as a Canadian contact and director in Marketing of the company. With a branch office in Vancouver – Canada, and associate companies in South Africa, Egypt, Uganda and Tanzania. Victoria Safaris, targets the up market traveler and special interest groups such as students, the physically impaired, corporate clients and the budget traveler (backpackers) etc.
Ownership and Management services
Victoria Safaris is a Kenyan family owned and managed company, privately registered in Kenya by the registrar of Companies; and operating under Tour Operator license issued annually by the Kenya Ministry of Tourism; and lastly, we are members of KATO (Kenya Association of Tour Operators – Member No. 390).
The origin of the owners; The Asudi Family, is around Lake Victoria, thus the name – Victoria Safaris. The family originate from a small village; Ulafu in East Alego location, Siaya district. This village is located 8 kilometers from the ancestral home of the USA President Elect – Senator Barrack Obama in Nyan’goma Kogelo in Alego.
Our safaris and tours are Niche (out-of-the-ordinary) with special attention to unique destinations such as the untapped virgin Western Kenya tourist circuit and Kenya -Uganda – Tanzania Lake Victoria circuit. Other tours include sight seeing safaris to view Tanzania wildlife, the Lake Victoria region, the Lake Victoria Islands, the Indian Ocean Beaches and Islands. We are the founders of Slum tours in Kenya, we take our clients to the famous Kibera Slums for community tours and others in various towns in Kenya, We specialize in Disability tours (wheelchair travel in East Africa) and Home stays in both urban and Rural set ups in East Africa mainly for the Peace corps and other Volunteer community tourists into East Africa. We are the specialists in Transit Tours and Filming tours in Kenya among others (see below list).
Our Packages
The activities that we offer are also wide ranging and apart from the traditional wildlife viewing tours our clientele are able to go on the following adventures: -
Eco Tourism Family tours Museums and Archeological tours Home Stays in Urban and Rural set ups in East Africa White Water Rafting on River Nile and River Tana Bungee Jumping on River Nile Gorilla Tracking in Uganda and Rwanda Boating and Fishing on Lake Victoria Cultural tours and Safaris around the Great Lakes Community Development tours in Western Kenya Wildlife Lodge and Camping Safaris in East Africa Wildlife Safaris and Beach Holidays in Africa Bird watching tours in East Africa Birding tours inside and around lake Victoria Maasai Mara Wildebeest Annual Migration Aquaculture tours Youth tours Sports Tourism Golf tours Scuba Diving and Dhow sailing Snorkeling and surfing Marine Parks tours Educational, Research and Study tours Conference tourism in East Africa Helicopter tours in East Africa Disability and wheelchair Access Tours Mountain Climbing on Wheelchair tours Health Tourism Health & HIV/Aids Community tours Photographic and Filming Tours Bicycle (cycling) tours Rock Climbing tours Walking(Trekking) tours Solo Women tours Agro and Agricultural Tours Pro poor tourism Slum tours in Kenya Kibera sums tours Incentive and Team building tours Western Kenya tourism circuit tours Transit Tourism Environment Tours Beach Holidays Balloon Safaris in Kenya and Tanzania Cultural Wedding and Honeymoon adventures
Our Mission Our mission is the provision of quality services to our clients while conserving the rich flora and fauna so abundantly found in the regions that we visit.
Our Vision To be one amongst the best Tour Operators in the East African market in the field of Travel and Tourism.
Our Services We are a registered and Licensed Tour Operator Company, members of KATO (Kenya Association of Tour Operators – Member no. 390) with experienced staff in arranging tailor-made safaris for travelers of all budget levels. Our staff have unrivalled knowledge about wildlife and African cultures. We at Victoria Safaris are dedicated to giving you a personal and professional service while helping you plan a perfect Safari, with expert, informed advice whether you are a first time or experienced traveler. We do not have fixed departures like most tour operators, but rather we customize each itinerary to suit the individual’s or group’s wishes. Whether you are traveling for leisure or business, come and experience the Ultimate African Adventure with us. We have side trips and short tours which make excellent add-ons to any safari and for those with only a short time to spare, will let you experience some of the African Adventure.
We offer expertly planned itineraries incorporating the best of East Africa’s irresistible attractions including – The Maasai Mara and Serengeti Wildebeest Annual Migration, Lake Victoria safaris, East Africa Beach Holidays, Gorilla Tracking in Uganda and Rwanda, Team building and incentive tours, Water rafting and Bungee Jumping on the River Nile and River Tana, Cultural Wedding in the African wilderness, Balloon Safaris in Maasai Mara and Serengeti National parks, Mountain Climbing to mention a few which gives you a superior touring and sightseeing experience.
Our Staff Our staff and expert film coordinators have years of experience in facilitating various filming projects from location hunting to securing licenses and permits. We’ll handle all your logistic needs and indeed, meet your expectations and more.
Why Us?
Our services are dependable, reliable and efficient – thus earning us reputable recommendations the world over. Our services are competitively priced to give the best satisfaction for your money. We believe you will want to work with us as much as you have many choices for assistance in planning your trip to Africa because we offer the following which many do not.
Personal Service in approach
On all destinations we guarantee excellence of service in our area of expertise. You can rest assured that we are dealing in what we know and what we do best. Our mission is the provision of quality services to our clients while conserving the rich flora and fauna so abundantly available in various regions of our visit. Our teams’ mission is to satisfy each client or group in an individual way, by offering them not just a pre-set package off the shelf but rather unique adventure and safari activities.
Client consultative Tour Package
We take the time to discuss your interests, travel style, budget, and timeframe – all the factors that can influence your trip – to ensure we suggest a tour that’s just right for you.
Expertise and Know how
Our staff have traveled to many different safari camps, lodges, and hotels throughout Africa. With collective experience in the tour industry, we know that we have to keep our ears and eyes open for news and updates. There is no better substitute than first hand knowledge when it comes to designing your tours and Safaris.
Timely and flexibility in response
Your time is valuable and we are committed to using it effectively. Therefore, our goal is a 24-hour response time to your enquiry. Continually, we update you on the status of your request, keeping you informed with a keen attention to detail and efficiency – while retaining our creativity and flexibility.
Efficiency in Communication
Our Tour guides and safari vehicles are equipped with High Frequency radios and or Mobile phones to ensure that your safari is problem free. And with a team of experienced multi-lingual driver-guides, we feel that we certainly have the know how to make your safari a memorable one.
Competitive in pricing
we believe that our tours offer you the best value for your money. We will always work with you to make the most of your given budget to allow you to enjoy quality service and provide the little ‘extras’ that make your tour that much more unique. All services, accommodations, ground operators and travel arrangements are continually monitored and evaluated, to ensure that we are providing you with the quality of product and service you are looking for.
Activities
Our activities begin when you touch down in any of our destinations in Kenya, Uganda or Tanzania including Zanzibar. With the wide range of options available, we believe that there is something to interest every traveler to East Africa. We offer an unrivalled choice of quality escorted tour packages packed with exciting daily sightseeing highlights and features. Our tours are designed to make the best use of your vacation time and we strike a careful balance between organized sightseeing and other exciting highlights allowing plenty of time for our tour directors and guides to educate you about East Africa. In addition to giving introductory briefings upon arrival, our tour directors and guides provide information relevant to your immediate location throughout the course of the safari. Our staff is ever ready to answer questions, give explanations, and teach you a little African History and Folklore as you go along. A great deal of care and effort goes into the selection of our tour guides as we would like you to travel in the company of true friends. Our groups are kept small, and we use luxury minibuses and 4×4 wheel drive Land Cruisers for our safaris.
We at Victoria Safaris are eager to go the extra mile to ensure you have an unforgettable safari. Alego is our home, Kisumu is our city, Nairobi our Capital City, Kenya our country and Africa is our continent, “tourism” is our only business, and we are passionate about it. So, for the trip of a lifetime, experience the African Flora and Fauna with the “in” people to go “out” with – Victoria Safaris.
James Asudi is the CEO of Victoria Safaris, a tour operator company based in Nairobi – Kenya offering Niche safaris,wildlife tours, Mountain Climbing, Beach holidays, Gorilla Tracking, River Nile Water Rafting, Maasai Mara Migration Safaris, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Northern Tanzania Safaris,Lake Victoria tours, Kogelo tours and Safaris, Slum tours in Kenya,Disability tours in Kenya,Care Hire in kenya, Fishing and boating inside Lake victoria and cultural and community based tours and safaris in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania including pemba and Zanzibar.
Accessible, wheelchair & family friendly camping safari holidays for disabled travellers to the Kruger Nat. Park, Garden Route & day tours in Johannesburg & Cape Town in South Africa. Everybody is welcome, touch a cheetah, taste local food
Disability wheelchair travel in Africa is set to increase in the future with the efforts being put in place and one of the tour operators in Africa – Victoria safaris, specializing in this emerging market. We have several tailor – made disability itineraries meant for wheelchair clients.
Disability(Wheelchair Accessible) tourism in Africa has seen been ignored by tour operators due to in accessibility and accommodation facilities within the African hotels, game parks and lodges within the wildlife sanctuaries. Victoria Safaris, one of the adventure tour operators based in Nairobi Kenya has recently started an aggressive wheelchair accessible safaris into the famous Kenyan wildlife sanctuaries which include Masai Mara Game Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, Tsavo East National Park and Amboseli National Park. For beach holidays, we have arrangements with Turtle Bay beach club which is wheelchair compliant and has four disability rooms facing the ocean front. Victoria safaris is doing its best to advice the various hotels in Nairobi city and other towns within Kenya and its environs to at least have one disability(wheelchair accessible) rooms. This conforms with the world over requirement for every hotel to be wheelchair accessible compliant.
There are over 500,000 disabled persons who are able to travel into Africa, but fears that, they may not be able to access the required facilities for their travel and accommodation. Victoria Safaris with the initiative of its General Manager- James Asudi has urged the lodge management in various parks in Kenya to establish atleast one room in every tented camp and one room in every lodge facility in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, Amboseli National Park and Tsavo East National Park. In all the named facilities the camps and lodges which has since established disability(Wheelchair) rooms are – Sarova Mara Camp in Maasai Mara, Sarova Lion Hill Lodge in Lake Nakuru National Park, Sopa Lodge in Amboseli and Ashnil Aruba Lodge in Tsavo East National Parks respectively.
Disability Safari Vehicles
Victoria Safaris has modified its Safari fleet vehicles to accommodate its wheelchair clients’ which include the 4×4 Land cruisers and the 7 seater Tour Safari Mini vans. We have since developed the wheelchair ramps which we use for transferring our wheelchair clients’ into and out of the appropriate safari vehicles. We have also supplied the straps for holding the wheelchair in position inside the said vehicles for comfort while our clients are on Safari.
Recently we have finished a successful 16 days wheelchair accessible safari into the Kenyan Wildlife sanctuaries for an Australian Hospital Accountant – Mrs. Kelly Green who is on wheelchair together with the husband, Michael who is physically fit. This was a test case for Victoria Safaris and for those who would want to confirm the trip facilities and comfortability, you may contact our recent clients on email: michael.green66@gmail.com
Collaboration
Victoria Safaris collaborates with Flamingo Tours of South Africa in this endeavor for making possible Wildlife and cultural Safaris for disabled (wheelchair clients) who would want to visit Southern African Wildlife sanctuaries and the East African Wildlife game reserves and game parks.
We invite individuals, Families with wheelchair family members, corporate organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGO’S), disability centers and organisations to book their disability members of society or join us in this emerging market by booking their disabled and wheelchair friends and family members for these memorable safaris and tours in Kenya,Uganda,Rwanda,and Tanzania.
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James Asudi is the CEO of Victoria Safaris, a tour operator company based in Nairobi – Kenya offering Niche safaris,wildlife tours, Mountain Climbing, Beach holidays, Gorilla Tracking, River Nile Water Rafting, Maasai Mara Migration Safaris, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Northern Tanzania Safaris,Lake Victoria tours, Kogelo tours and Safaris, Slum tours in Kenya,Disability tours in Kenya,Care Hire in kenya, Fishing and boating inside Lake victoria and cultural and community based tours and safaris in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania including pemba and Zanzibar.
Apart from the traditional wildlife safari for which Kenya is widely known, the country also offers numerous and different types of other types of tours and excursions that would be interest only to a few people with special, but intense interest. From golfing to filmmaking, to diving, you will find locations and facilities to meet your needs.
There are very many possibilities of enriching a visit to Kenya with tours to areas and establishments of special interest and even meetings with professionals in that particular field. There is a whole range of subjects, which may be included into a customized itinerary – whether you would like to travel as a large group or as a small one.
Some of the areas of interest that you would consider to work around in Kenya are mentioned briefly below.
Agriculture and Horticulture
Kenya has a predominantly agricultural economy, with agriculture, horticulture, livestock, forestry and fishing accounting for a sizeable percentage of the Gross Domestic Product of the country. The most important cash crops are coffee and tea grown in the cool fertile uplands in the central part of the country.
Tropical fruits such as pineapples, paw paws, bananas, mangoes, cashews and macadamias are all grown in Kenya and Tanzania for home consumption and export. In the farming centre of Nakuru, it is possible to visit a pyrethrum factory (Kenya produces almost 80% of the total world production of pyrethrum). In addition, this area is ideally suited to ranching with fine herds of beef cattle as is Naivasha and Nanyuki, with Boran, Sahiwal, Charolais and Hereford breeds.
You can visit flower farms in and around Naivasha town. Kenya produces cut flowers largely for export, supplying almost 98% of its 40 types of flowers to European Countries.
Archaeological Tours
Archaeologically, Kenya is of worldwide interest being the discovery site for some extremely important excavations and findings. Kenya is the cradle of Mankind. Between 1998 and 1999, the remains and fossils of Kenyanthropus platyops, dating back to over 2.6 million years were discovered west of Lake Turkana. These discoveries suggest the protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Today, these remains can be found at the National Museums of Kenya.
Historical and Cultural Tours
The coastline of Kenya and Tanzania bears the remains of the many foreign peoples who have passed through its shores in the last 1000 years of history – Chinese, Persians, Arabs, Portuguese to mention just a few. Some were traders and while others were invaders. All the same, all of them have left a fascinating collection of coastal antiquities.
The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived in Malindi in 1498. He received a very warm welcome from the locals and Malindi became a Portuguese centre of trade.
The diversity of the culture of Kenya’s people can be felt through their languages, food, music, beliefs and practices. For example, among the Luhya community of western Kenya, August and December are the months when they circumcise their young lads. Besides the actual initiation ceremony, traditional songs and dances are performed during this period.
Geological Tours
For lovers of geology and gemology, a safari combined with opportunities of meeting local enthusiasts and visits to areas of mineralogical interest can be an exciting experience. The volcanic eruptions that have taken place have created fascinating structures of earth variations.
Golfing Tours
There are 4 championship golf courses in and around Nairobi and nearly 20 courses throughout Kenya, all in beautiful settings. The Kenya Open (handicap 3 or under) attracts world golfing stars during the months of February and March and the Kenya Amateur Championships (handicap seven of less) in November. You can schedule your travel to coincide with the dates.
Deep sea Fishing
For deep sea fishing fans, between the months of October and March there are opportunities of landing record marlin, mako shark and sailfish as well as a plethora of game fish including kingfish, bonito, felusi and black runner along the coastline. During this period regular competitions are held in which overseas visitors are encouraged to participate.
Other special interest tours that can be enjoyed in Kenya include bird watching and diving expeditions. There are over 1000 species of birds while qualified divers can enjoy the reefs of Mombasa with the season running from April to October.
Many other special events and festivals take place in Kenya every year. The main ones include the Kenya Tourism Week, The Safari Rally, Concours d’elegance Motor Show, The Rhino Charge, International Camel Derby and the Dugong Festival/ Lamu Donkey Race.
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