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How do blind people adapt to fully experience and enjoy traveling and exploring? (self.Blind)
submitted by No_Qualaaa_3126
How do blind people adapt to fully experience and enjoy traveling and exploring?
DrillInstructorJan 11 points 2y ago
Kind of a broad question, but if you're born blind it's not like there's any adaptation process to worry about.

Personally I'm fully aware of what I'm missing but I love to travel anyway, even though it's five hundred times harder to do.
oncenightvaler 7 points 2y ago
Well, as to myself personally I can do exploring but I have to have straightforward plans of what places I am going to.

example: I went to New York City and stayed out in Brooklyn. I had to book my hotel and trip in advance obviously, but I also found a few restaurants to try near my hotel before I ever took the bus to New York, and made sure that my hotel was near to the pub space where the drama I was seeing would be acted called Bell House. .

I think the next type of trip that I really wish to take is with a tour group so I can meet new people, and have people to explore alongside me, I had even heard that there are tour groups specifically for the blind.
CloudyBeep 1 points 2y ago
The tour group for the blind is called Traveleyes. For your information and anyone else who is curious.
ybs90012 6 points 2y ago
Read the book "seeing the world my way" this describes how a blind person travels to a lot of countries on his own.
wishiwasmegmccaffrey 4 points 2y ago
I love to travel! And there are more to the trip than just a visual experience. There are completely new sounds, smells and sensations.
Instead of pictures, I try to capture my trip in other ways. I have an audio recording from the subway in Athens, I order the same kinds of candy for Christmas that I ate in Texas and I found a softener that smells exactly like my bedsheets in England. Of course I have pictures too, but these other trip-things talks to me more.
SkepticalCriticsNoun 4 points 2y ago
I don't. At least personally I don't like to travel through places that I do not know.
blindfoldedtweezers 2 points 2y ago
Would it be terrible if I answered this question by talking about video games? I'm visually impaired, so I have remaining vision. I do like to travel with family/friends when possible, and my family lets me be the "travel agent" so I decide where to go, and that's all good and fun. But there's something so powerful about just...going somewhere, in a video game. I don't have to wait for someone to give me a ride, I won't come to any physical harm if I run into something or fall off something etc. And the scenery in a lot of video games is really gorgeous. But I presume my response is more of a "visually impaired" response than a "blind" response...?
AlrightyAphroditey 2 points 2y ago
Check out Traveleyes
macadamia_owl 2 points 2y ago
I think it depends on "level of blindness". Definition of blindness varies even between countries, there are "$1" people with some vision left, some people are having tunnel vision but perfect sharp and are considered blind too, some are fully blind and I think the experience and enjoyment of travel would weary a lot too if the person has those problems since birth or not.

My grandfather, fully blind since age of 3, was enjoying travel with his wife fully sighted person as long as they health allowed them they traveled with buses and trains, then with organized locals travels clubs for seniors. They visited multiple times european countries and taken photos Italy, Belgium, France and their homecountry. They were swimming, eating local food, visiting famous places like other tourists my grandmother was describing to my grandfather the surroundings was his personal audioguide, always buying some little souvenirs for family. Can't ask for details sadly anymore she passed unexpected in April they're laying together now in the same place. She was so kind soul never complained as well as he only when really hurted miss them so much.

I'm one of legally blind with rest vision 20/1000 with tunnel vision in one eye other one without light perception since 15 yrs. I can still see lots of colors not all of them, I use white cane. I love to travel, its convenient to take someone with better vision so I take my parents we split the costs. They're my sighted personal guides/audioguides/photographers and I am travel organizator/translator/personal expert of modern technology for them because they don't know English. We do everything as typical tourists do: swimming, local places and attractions (searching and booking with internet first), taking photos. My personal favourite: "watching" wild dolphins boat tours (just searching and then hearing them in water in their natural home enviorement so exciting and sometimes they come very close), drinking juice from local fresh pressed fruits. We are traveling with car, train, plane… technology nowadays is very helpful. Lots of apps with OCR technology are must have for travelers + Google Translate. Lots of airports are having assistance service but its often used and needed to be booked much earlier if its busy day you will have to wait a bit or it can be even unavailable due to high demand because its not "high priority" service often.
Hallowss 1 points 2y ago
I make sure to travel with people who I trust and know when I may need help - I’ve have lots of problems with officials (police etc) not believing I’m blind due to my independence
However! After years of travelling on planes fine, I suddenly developed a serious fear on flying when I started losing my vision
I’ve heard cruises are very accessible though so maybe that’s next :)
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