Are you looking for a blind guide to show you around the world? Want to know how to and what it is like to ‘see the sights’ when one can hardly see at all? Then you’ve come to the right place.
Welcome to Blind As A Backpack!
Like you, I have long had the desire to travel; ‘to see the sights and have delights on every foreign shore’. Those dreams have largely been unfulfilled though with most of my ‘adventures’ taking place in various operating theatres and doctors rooms (over a dozen surgeries in the past 5 years alone).
It is time for that to change. It is time to fill the backpack, grab the white cane and see the world! Er, well, kinda seethe world – maybe taste, hear, smell and bump into the world! And you are invited to come along for the journey.
Cane, backpack and able
A month’s meander through Myanmar is booked in for October 2016. India, Nepal, China, and North Korea is also on the horizon for 2017 Hopefully there will be more additions to that list soon.
The trip to Myanmar cannot come soon enough! Many impressive Buddhist pagodas, stupas and temples are on the list to sample as are remote villages, exotic street foods and festivities such as the Phaung Daw Oo Festival on Inle Lake. Most of all though I am looking forward to meeting and talking with the people of Myanmar. Those who I have spoken to that have been there have all reported that the Burmese are incredibly friendly people so it will be the perfect place to kick off the Blind As A Backpack adventures.
Travelling such places will of course provide many challenges. Language barriers, culture shock and other such hurdles confront all travellers but I can’t help wondering ‘will I bump into this? will I miss out on seeing that? will I walk in front of a bus and over a cliff whilst getting on the wrong flight?’ and other such questions. Finding the answers to those will be part of the fun and experience.
The aim of the blog will be to provide some entertainment, information and inspiration for all travellers; sighted, blind, low vision and anything in between.
Being Blind As A Backpack should be an eye opening experience – come along fo the journey!
