Our tours for the visual impaired were carefully design in order to come up with a very exciting and unique tour. It has been a very challenging experience, but at the end we are very proud to present 2 regions in Ecuador to visit (Highlands and Amazon). In order to make this tour one to remember we use descriptive, explanation techniques to describe the attraction we are visiting. We combine this techniques with small figure representations in order create a visual image in the tourist mind.

In some activities the tourist will have the opportunity to use their senses to experience the attraction. To give you a couple of examples: When we visit an Animal Rescue Center in the Amazon, we will be able to safely touch a baby ocelot and/or a monkey and/or a boa……Also in the Amazon when visiting an indigenous community we can be part of the preparation of their traditional food, learning about their hunting habits and then smell the particular odor of their fish wrapped in a banana tree leave while is being cooked on a wooden fire stove. After is cooked if we wish we can try some….

We believe that the experience of the tour in the Highland and Amazon for someone with a visual disability will be far more enriching because it will enlight the use of all the senses compare to someone relying only on vision.